When discussing conspiracies, you'll find critics saying they're rare and only then that they're generally small in nature. This, they say, is because large conspiracies would never work due to the fact that people would talk.
Are you familiar with the name Adrian Schoolcraft?
The “Year of the Tunnel” is really putting down roots. Did you all see how some W. VA good old boy came up w/ a harebrained, Appalachian methrock scheme and dug a Shawshank Redemption-esque tunnel into a used auto dealership to try & steal a car? Everybody’s tunneling in 2024.
It’s awesome a major studio developed a viral marketing campaign around sneaking their Illuminati Reptilian characters into real news broadcasts in the era of QAnon, a movement that totally won't think this is predictive programming
You don’t need books.
Life will teach you everything you need to know.
But only IF you pay attention.
WHY did this go wrong?
HOW did I allow this bad thing to happen?
WHAT will I do in the future?
Self-analyze more, “learn” new things less
Wisdom > knowledge
Dash cam video shows a road rage incident in June when a Portland driver plowed through barricades and nearly hit several people along the Rose Festival's Grand Floral parade route. Here's video & full story:
A photo taken by Richard Avedon of a Vietnamese victim of napalm. Some Vietnam protests targeted the colleges that worked with napalm producers; in October 1967, students at UW–Madison protested Dow Chemical's presence on campus, asking the uni to cut all ties with Dow.
“The Vietnam protest—-“
Were followed by Richard Nixon becoming President, Republicans dominating politics until the 1990’s, and Democrats shifting towards hard on crime policies. Y’all want to talk about history but don’t want to talk about how it fits together.
1968-1992.
BREAKING: Police in the US state of Georgia have arrested three people for the supposed "crime" of raising bail funds to get peaceful "Cop City" protestors out of jail prior to trial.
This is full-on attack on the US Constitution.
Do people not realize the Basterds are mostly irrelevant to the plot of the film (outside of the Landa scenes)? Shoshanna and Marcel kill the Nazis. The Basterds die in the middle of their pornographic revenge fantasy.
I know that the contrarian opinion is that The Beatles always sucked but refusing to play Florida unless unless the Gator Bowl desegregated will always be one of the all-time great uses of celebrity power
The judge said they couldn't determine if the cop hit her because too many cops probably hit her and they couldn't figure out which cops hit her individually
A Philadelphia judge on Monday found a former city police officer not guilty on all charges in connection with the beating of a 28-year-old mother during civil unrest in October 2020.
Was reading about Israeli attempts to kill Arafat when I stumbled across this gem: in 1968, inspired by the same set of circumstances that spawned MKULTRA, Israeli intelligence tried to program an assassin, and failed in spectacular fashion
New Year's special on Russian state TV was creepy and surreal. Top pro-Kremlin propagandists were seated alongside military guests, whose presence was sure to remind the audience that at that very moment, Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities and slaughtering civilians next door.
For close to 20 years, the FBI bankrolled one of the most extreme of satanic neo-Nazi publishing houses, which in turn radicalized thousands of people to the far-right online.
Today is a sad anniversary. Fifty-three years ago, 4 students were killed and another 9 injured by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University. The deaths themselves were a tragedy, but the ongoing cover-up is a travesty. 🧵
A Wiki war is happening over on the Havana Syndrome talk page, where one editor is refusing to allow updates adding a reference to the 2024 NIH studies finding no detectable brain injuries, over the protests of four others, because they don't like what the research says
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggests some pro-Palestinian protests, especially those against President Biden, have “a Russian tinge to it.”
“It's in Putin's interest for 'What's His Name' to win, and therefore I see some encouragement on the part of the Russians.”
Scientists working for the US government infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s. We only found out because one guy inexplicably left behind records of the tests.
BREAKING: Mission Local has learned that San Francisco police this morning traveled to Emeryville to make an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee.
The alleged killer also works in tech and purportedly knew Lee.
From
@esksf
The Intercept killed a story on the membership list of the Bohemian Grove. Insane how even supposedly left-wing news organizations must openly show fealty to power.
Speaking as a Watergate historian, there’s nowhere on thousands of hours of Nixon tapes where Nixon makes any comment as clear, as clearly illegal, and as clearly self-aware as this Trump tape.
"But my question is, what do we do with the ones that are already here...? I think we have to pass a new law for them."
I hope it's clear where this is headed.
Trump: Using federal law, I will order my government to deny entry to all Communists and all Marxists.. So we're going to keep foreign Christian hating Communists, Marxists and Socialists out of America
This magic still exists. One of my favorite discoveries during the Trump years was a Philly public access show called Conversations Across Time, involving locals dressing up as historical figures for some of the most insane arguments you'll ever see.
Nothing on the internet, not on YouTube, not on Twitch, will ever approach the singular energy of a public access show you stumble onto in the middle of the night, and that is society's loss
Smedley Butler took leave from the USMC in 1924 to act as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety, largely to enforce prohibition. He was forced to resign after he extended his temperance raids to the city's politically connected and wealthy.
Sag Harbor cop who didn't recognize Justin Timberlake during DWI arrest is unmasked as rookie Michael Arkinson... and he's been infuriating the Hamptons elite for months
🚨ASSASINATION INFO DROP🚨
We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.
To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them.🧵
This is must-read analysis from Revolver about the education reform campaign in Florida: taking over public universities, eliminating DEI bureaucracies, reducing the power of teachers unions, and moving the state toward universal school choice.
It's funny that when people ask for examples of this, the replies are Greenwald, Taibbi, and Dore -- Gen X'ers who predate the label dirtbag left and always leaned libertarian.
The only people who bestow omnipotence on the government are people who believe the powerful would never conspire. Not every plot is successful, or if they are then they don't stay hidden forever. Humans are fallible and make errors. Plans are never perfect.
The replies saying this is because the kids are rejecting woke culture and psyop music are amazing. John Denver was the Taylor Swift of his day—a wildly popular pop musician scorned by the country establishment. Look up Charlie Rich's response to Denver at the '74 CMAs.
UPDATE: Joanne Segovia on paid leave as exec director of San Jose police union
@ProtectSanJose
after being charged by
@USAO_NDCA
w/smuggling opioids disguised as wedding party favors, makeup, chocolate & sweets, per
@HSISanFrancisco
Periodic reminder that local news matters. RFT was one of the only publications still reporting on Darren Seals' murder, and found that the FBI had generated over 900 pages surveilling him.
I was laid off today along with the entirety of the Riverfront Times staff.
@rft
is officially dead. It was an honor to work with my colleagues and I can say this is the best paper I’ve ever had the pleasure of working at.
It's uncomfortable but it really feels like the idea of shadowy capitalists inflicting a terrible industrial accident and coverup on a small all-white rural town with a cinematic name fits the herrenvolkish, heartland-versus-globalists worldview both extremes occasionally share
It's cool that all politics is QAnon now: everyone's political opponents are on the verge of being arrested; the smoking gun is about to drop; and someone is definitely in control!
More fun COINTELPRO finds. In the late 1960s the FBI attempted to subvert New Left media by creating their own underground comix and newspapers. The purpose? To discredit the SDS and promote fighting among left-wing groups.
Meta confirmed an Israeli marketing firm has been running an online influence operation targeting US citizens, posing as "Jewish students, African Americans and other concerned citizens," according to Reuters
This being Halloween season, an anniversary of sorts for the Schoolcraft abduction, I'm left with a question. Multiple, actually. Do police departments coordinate in a conspiracy? Have their crime statistics ever been accurate? And if not—would someone talk?
So in 2008 Schoolcraft set about recording conversations. What he documented was a deeply corrupt system—a police department pressuring precincts into quotas, commanders pressuring cops into stops, and cops pressuring victims into changing stories.
Cops state this is because of a backlog, because of poor funding and resources. But budgets and expenditures have never dipped. So what do police do? They manage the perception of crime. Stop-and-frisk created the illusion that police actually fight crime.
BREAKING: In a bombshell,
@thenation
reports today that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses – all blatantly illegal under US law.
@nytimes
is ignoring.
FBI has done nothing to stop it.⤵️
Why? Because more aggressive policing doesn't stop crime, especially violent crime. As of 2015, estimates held that around a third of murder cases went unsolved; that number may have increased to as many as half of all cases by 2022.
The idea being, if you stop crime at the lowest rungs of society it will prevent escalation into more dangerous crimes later. It's a kind of strange perversion of Reaganomics, that harassing low-level offenders will trickle up to drug dealers and gangs.
The new Intercept article about Kissinger offers some insight into how a group of powerful men might bypass the "somebody would talk" issue of a conspiracy
U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.
I'm not claiming to know what's going on here, but it seems one of the likelier scenarios is that the US and China have been quietly spying on each other for years using high-altitude balloons. Both sides knew and let it go to avoid admitting to it.
Russia's first time traveller has returned.
Guess what he said:
In September Biden is medically diagnosed as unfit for office and quits.
They discover that the DNC has legal power to choose a replacement without a National vote!
Weird huh?
You'll never guess who they chose.
Schoolcraft, an NYPD officer from 2002-2010, was involuntarily committed to a mental ward at the Jamaica Medical Hospital—on Halloween, no less—by officers in his own department. What happened?
The FBI went out of it way to try and disrupt this program so that the Panthers couldn't feed children for free, that's how scared people were of a free meal. Here's a memo they sent to friendly journalists in their Mass Media Program:
Never forget the Black Panthers began this initiative back in 1969.
It’s insane how little progress has been made…
At the peak of their program, the Black Panthers were feeding more kids around the country than the State of California did.
For years landlords have been saying they aren't intentionally keeping properties vacant to artificially restrict supply and yet that's exactly what they've been doing
1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.
So, it's surprising that the recent FBI RAID on a corporate landlord based in Atlanta has received little attention.
The raid was part of a federal probe of an
America rules because around half the country now thinks they can obtain animals' memories by eating raw roadkill and they want to share this secret with the world
There were ten self-immolations on American soil during the Vietnam War. The first was Alice Herz, an immigrant who fled Nazi Germany and Vichy France. She did it, in her words, "to call attention to the problems in South Vietnam."
@deathpigeon
You’re comparing the United States to South Vietnam - an authoritarian country? Cmon. The reason immolation is so rare in the US is because unlike Vietnam in the 60’s, the US has freedom of speech, robust courts and free and fair elections so individuals can make change.
I've always found this criticism bizarre, and a bit naive. While True Detective is certainly a horror story, its central focus is the epistemology of conspiracy -- what is known, what can be known, what will never be known. S1's ending is a reflection of that.
I know people felt burned by Pizzolatto not going full-tilt tentacle and horns cosmic horror, but the whole season is about imposed and imagined narratives, tracing over the gutter of our world with iconography for good and evil; it's the only ending this story could've ever had.
There had been a trickle effect, except it went from the highest levels of NYC—politicians, commissioners, business owners—down to its beat cops. There was now an incentive to manipulate crime statistics, the very thing intended to fix the city's problem.