Lesley Hazleton at TEDxRainier: “Muhammad, You and Me” By Garibaldi, 08 December 2012 Lesley Hazleton, one of our favorite “anti-Loons” describes herself as the “Accidental Theologist” by which she means that even though she is an agnostic Jew she is fascinated by religion, theology and faith. Her fascination with religion has led her in …
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Dec 19 2012
Late mercantilist heresy
The Christian right’s fight against the ‘war on Christmas’ By Diane Roberts, Tuesday 18 December 2012 17.01 EST I love this time of year: decking the halls with boughs of artificial holly, wrapping twinkly lights around anything that doesn’t move, and settling in on a long winter’s night to watch conservatives take up rhetorical …
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Dec 19 2012
Paranoia and mistrust of authority
What I learned from my gun show tour By Max Blumenthal, Tuesday 18 December 2012 08.30 EST Adam Lanza, the killer of 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was raised by a woman, Nancy Lanza, who, her sister-in-law told reporters, was obsessed with guns and “prepared for the worst”. With fears …
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Dec 18 2012
Matrix programming
How the Newtown massacre became a Mind-Control television event By Jon Rappoport, December 18, 2012 Mind control. Mass hypnosis. Operant conditioning. Brain entrainment. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re so conditioned to how television covers life that we rarely step back and take notice. In the case of massive disasters and crimes, network …
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Dec 17 2012
A feeling of control
A Message To The NRA From The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse By Paul Bibeau, Monday, December 17, 2012 Hey, guys. Pestilence here. The other riders and I are pretty busy lately, but we wanted to take a moment and make something clear. In the days ahead many of you will be deploying some …
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Dec 17 2012
Groping for answers once again
After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn’t Had a Similar Massacre Since. By Will Oremus, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at 10:00 PM ET On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By the time he was finished, he had …
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Dec 17 2012
Quintessentially
Why is the shooter always male? By Paul Campos, Monday, Dec 17, 2012 11:00 AM CST A common demand made of socially marginalized groups is that they take responsibility for the bad acts of their members. These demands come both from socially privileged people who marginalize social outsiders and from the socially marginalized themselves. …
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