02/17/24: We're now in the THIRD DECADE of people robo-parroting the accusative (character-assassinating) phrase, "conspiracy theorist."
Highly recommended: "How I Accidentally Joined The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," Harry Stein [1948- ]; Delacorte Press [Random House] (2000 hardcover).
(Imagine trying to get Random House --- or whatever sliver of corporate sh*t title that it is now today as some publishing Goliath's "Jawoh!" subsidiary ---to publish this same book today.)
The CIA invented the term to attack Warren Report disbelievers. You're just plain nuts if you don't believe sanctified government explanations. But we know they always lie, obfuscate, omit and cover up. George Carlin was so right.
I'm tempted to go through the whole exposition on C.T., but the short form: it's a substitute for actual argument, and really amounts, almost always, to "I've got nothing but name-calling."
Makes me nuts.
Exception: Greenwald has used it for Russiagate, where it actually makes sense: an elaborate fiction about a non-existent conspiracy. And he doesn't stop with name-calling, but makes a case.
The CIA operation Mongoose was a disinformation/propaganda operation formed in 1960 to counter the same from the Soviets. This was outed in 1975 by the Church Committee. The following year, newly installed CIA director George Bush, admitted to paying reporters to place government propaganda pieces in various media outlets. He said the CIA would stop paying them, but hoped the partnership would continue. It did.
And Obama made it legal just prior to leaving office by signing the Smith-Mund Act which for the first time ? first time since? allowed for government propaganda to be used on the citizens of the USA.
Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
02/18/24: Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
Hey Matt; maybe that’s because the entire federal entity HAS BECOME an arm of the IC.
But, ya know, maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist. 😂
I call it a "conspiracy realist", and I've been one going on 5 years now.
02/17/24: We're now in the THIRD DECADE of people robo-parroting the accusative (character-assassinating) phrase, "conspiracy theorist."
Highly recommended: "How I Accidentally Joined The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," Harry Stein [1948- ]; Delacorte Press [Random House] (2000 hardcover).
(Imagine trying to get Random House --- or whatever sliver of corporate sh*t title that it is now today as some publishing Goliath's "Jawoh!" subsidiary ---to publish this same book today.)
It's a good thing the people running things are arrogant, incompetent and out-of-touch, or else we'd be in real trouble.
Good point. They have no "brakes" in their (what the doctors insist upon calling) brains.
The CIA invented the term to attack Warren Report disbelievers. You're just plain nuts if you don't believe sanctified government explanations. But we know they always lie, obfuscate, omit and cover up. George Carlin was so right.
I'm tempted to go through the whole exposition on C.T., but the short form: it's a substitute for actual argument, and really amounts, almost always, to "I've got nothing but name-calling."
Makes me nuts.
Exception: Greenwald has used it for Russiagate, where it actually makes sense: an elaborate fiction about a non-existent conspiracy. And he doesn't stop with name-calling, but makes a case.
The CIA operation Mongoose was a disinformation/propaganda operation formed in 1960 to counter the same from the Soviets. This was outed in 1975 by the Church Committee. The following year, newly installed CIA director George Bush, admitted to paying reporters to place government propaganda pieces in various media outlets. He said the CIA would stop paying them, but hoped the partnership would continue. It did.
And Obama made it legal just prior to leaving office by signing the Smith-Mund Act which for the first time ? first time since? allowed for government propaganda to be used on the citizens of the USA.
Thanks, gonna look that title up!
Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
Thanks, I saw that title while looking up the forner.
I'll start with that one...
02/18/24: Buy/read this one first, which is superior to the title above: "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican," A Survival Guide... Harry Stein [1948- ]; Encounter Books (2009 hardcover)
I've been at it 36 yrs now. I haven't been wrong yet.
Oh, and we're losing badly, in case you're keeping score
Worse than that even, probably a white supremacist tranny-hater.