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Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainThe relative success of Trutherism has peaked and is now on the decline. Its genesis lies in right-wing populist conspiracism that was repackaged post-9/11 to appeal to left-of-centre consumers who felt traumatised and disenfranchised as a result of GOP dominance of US politics to 2006. An explanation of 9/11 as a plot masterminded by Bush or his associates appealed to some on the left, as another example of the illegitimacy of the Bush Administration and an example of their evil.
One of the greatest blows to the Troof Movement was when the Democratic Party took Congress in the 2006 Mid-terms. It destroyed the notion of "BushCo" as an all-powerful clique that controlled space-time, controlled all media, and could steal any elections it wanted. As Katrina, Iraq, and Afghanistan have unfolded, the capability of the Bush Administration to orchestrate the greatest deception of all time has been severely dented.
Since 2006, Trooferism is returning to the right-wing populism from which it was originally-derived. Trooferism's love affair with Ron Paul(1) is rather indicative of this, as well as Trooferism's bolder assertions that the Democratic Party was also "in on it". On the progressive messageboard DemocraticUnderground, resident Troofers are becoming bolder in smearing leading Democrats such as Bill Clinton and John Kerry.read more »
Vote Different maybe but
the same old paranoid fears
A couple of weeks ago a parody of Apple's famous 1984 Super Bowl ad appeared on YouTube and other video sharing sites and, perhaps because of the mystery surrounding its' origin, became something of an overnight internet phenomenon. Now we know the creator of the parody but a larger mystery is revealed and some serious questions are raised. More after the fold.read more »
Guy Smith, producer of the BBC documentary 9/11: The Conspiracy Files which was the subject of our first Neural Gourmet open discussion via Skypecast yesterday recently appeared on the Alex Jones show to defend his work agains Jones and Dylan Avery. I've updated the post for our discussion to allow you to listen to Smith online or download the MP3. Probably nothing you've never heard from truthers before but it can be humorous to hear Jones and Avery twist logic and spew countless baseless factoids as if nobody would notice.
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Just a brief note to thank everyone who participated in today's open skypecast discussion on 9-11 and conspiracism. That was seriously one hell of a lot of fun! Moriarty, procrastinate later, Caution and myself defended the skeptical viewpoint (successfully I think) while new NG member Paula credibly (and politely) represented the questions raised by the 9-11 Truth movement. Thanks Paula for giving us four hardcore skeptics some stimulating conversation. In between we had several other representatives of the conspiracist arguments whom I wish had hung on but sadly dropped out of the conversation and even one person who just sat back and listened to the whole sordid affair. All things considered, for our first run at doing this sort of thing, I thought it went really well (even if I wasn't quite sure how to wind it up after an hour and a half) and a good time was had by all. I definitely want to do another skypecast discussion, perhaps in about 1 month.
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Everyone is invited to participate in something new we're trying here at NG. For quite a while now, some Neural Gourmet members and I have been having discussions using Skype. These discussions have been so much fun we'd like to extend that. So this Sunday, we're going to have our first public discussion using Skype's Skypecasting feature. This allows up to 100 people to talk, conference call fashion, at once. If we see a lot of interest, we'll be doing this regularly with a different topic each time.
The topic for our first discussion is centered around the recent BBC program 9/11: The Conspiracy Files which took a skeptical look at the the various paranoid conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. You can watch the whole program and read more about the discussion after the fold.read more »
Wayne Madsen is an "investigative journalist", who breathlessly reveals the latest US government plot based on the flimsiest evidence on his website - and then gets very annoyed when most people don't take his predictions seriously. That he turns out to be wrong all the time doesn't seem to faze him, or a small band of devoted followers.
Now he's come up with something so stupid that you'd think it's satire. He claims the name of the element used to poison Alexander Litvinenko is a clue to who really did it. However, there's an undercurrent mixed in with the idiocy which shows (a) it's probably not satire; (b) Madsen is a nasty turd.read more »
