Running Time: 50:39
Description:Imagine a word that could stop a conversation, shut down all serious thought and make mountains of evidence disappear. Meet that wonderful term ‘conspiracy.’ Today we examine this word from the inside-out and look at ways political activists can use it as a basis for productive conversation.
Documentation
| Documentation – Youth Day laws under the microscope | |
| Time Reference: | 03:06 |
| Description: | REAL NEWS #1 |
| Link To: | Sydney Morning Herald |
| Documentation – EDITORIAL: Obama, FISA and the left | |
| Time Reference: | 04:01 |
| Description: | REAL NEWS #2 |
| Link To: | Washington Times |
| Documentation – Mum’s police check for school run | |
| Time Reference: | 05:18 |
| Description: | REAL NEWS #3 |
| Link To: | BBC News |
| Documentation – 9/11 inside job Prof Jim Fetzer dumps on Hannity and Colmes | |
| Time Reference: | 06:47 |
| Description: | Experiment: Time how long it takes for the hosts to invoke the c word. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Who believes the 9/11 conspiracy theories? | |
| Time Reference: | 06:54 |
| Description: | Evidently not Tucker Carlson |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – James Fetzer on The O’Reilly Factor | |
| Time Reference: | 06:59 |
| Description: | Bill O’LIEly tells us we think space aliens kidnapped Elvis. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Kevin Barrett 911 whistleblower on hannity and colmes | |
| Time Reference: | 07:24 |
| Description: | Even Colmes gets in on the act. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Noam Chomsky on 911 conspiracy part 2 | |
| Time Reference: | 07:37 |
| Description: | Oh, Chomsky thinks it’s not important who committed the 9/11 attacks? Well he’s the number one critic of the American empire, so he must be right. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – A cloak but no dagger | |
| Time Reference: | 08:57 |
| Description: | On 9/11, General Mahmoud Ahmed (head of the Pakistani ISI) was meeitng with Bob Graham and Porter Goss. |
| Link To: | Washington Post |
| Documentation – Our friends the Pakistanis | |
| Time Reference: | 08:58 |
| Description: | General Ahmed was fired in October 2001 for having wired $100000 to Mohammed Atta in the weeks leading up to the attacks. |
| Link To: | Wall Street Journal |
| Documentation – Speech by Rumsfeld on September 10, 2001 | |
| Time Reference: | 09:12 |
| Description: | Admitting that the Pentagon managed to lose 2.3 TRILLION dollars. |
| Link To: | defenselink.mil |
| Documentation – Budget analyst office his on 9/11 | |
| Time Reference: | 09:31 |
| Description: | This info comes from an article about the firefighter’s response to the pentagon crash on 9/11 published in Connections Newspapers. The original has been expunged from the web but the operative quote is contained on this page (CTRL – F to find “budg |
| Link To: | Killtown |
| Documentation – E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession | |
| Time Reference: | 09:50 |
| Description: | Video with the confession itself and information about Hunt. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Michael Parenti talk about JFK assassination | |
| Time Reference: | 10:55 |
| Description: | An excellent and enlightening talk about JFK’s assassination and the gangster nature of the state. |
| Link To: | ybbs.com |
| Documentation – The Great Conspiracy | |
| Time Reference: | 14:48 |
| Description: | Barrie Zwicker’s documentary on the 9/11 coverup. |
| Link To: | The Great Conspiracy |
| Documentation – Towers of Deception | |
| Time Reference: | 14:50 |
| Description: | Barrie Zwicker’s book examining the media and their role in the 9/11 coverup. |
| Link To: | Towers of Deception |
| Documentation – The Media Hounds Unleashed on Ron Paul | |
| Time Reference: | 29:04 |
| Description: | Contains the instructive story of how the corporate media made Governor Brown into Governor Moonbeam. |
| Link To: | Op Ed News |
| Documentation – CIA instructions to media assets | |
| Time Reference: | 32:03 |
| Description: | Read CIA document #1035-960, which planted the term conspiracy theorist in the heart of the corporate-controlled popular culture. |
| Link To: | Real History Archives |
| Documentation – Operation Mockingbird | |
| Time Reference: | 36:06 |
| Description: | Start researching about the CIA program to implant agents at the heart of the controlled corporate media. |
| Link To: | Wikipedia |
| Documentation – The CIA and the media | |
| Time Reference: | 36:53 |
| Description: | Carl Bernstein’s 1976 article on the ties between the intelligence world and the media. |
| Link To: | CarlBernstein.com |
| Documentation – Peter Dale Scott | |
| Time Reference: | 38:32 |
| Description: | The homepage of scholar and researcher Peter Dale Scott, who popularized the term parapolitics to describe the way covert operations effect public policy. |
| Link To: | Berkeley.edu |
| Documentation – Stephen Dorril’s homepage | |
| Time Reference: | 39:25 |
| Description: | Find out more about Stephen Dorril here. |
| Link To: | RogerDog |
Obama decries ‘wild west’ media landscape
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-landscape-214642552.html
Pittsburgh (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America’s “wild, wild west” media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.
Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.
“We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to,” Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.
“There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world,” Obama added.