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Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (WIW 16)

EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)
One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t. 
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02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
The Doomsday Clock
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Internet Rabbit Holes (1)

EPISODE 152 | Internet Rabbit Holes (1)
Once in a while, someone comes across a website that creeps them out, or confuses them so much they start to ask others about it and, before you know it, an internet rabbit hole has formed. Today, we’ll take a look at a few of these internet mysteries that sure got tongues wagging and finger flying over keyboards. Though almost always, the answer that’s found, if there is one, is disappointing. 
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03:26 - The Backrooms - An internet sensation, 99rooms
11:26 - Mortis - Terabytes of confusion
18:03 - Exit Mundi and Death Date - Also Death Clock
20:58 - Zombo - Who knows?
23:48 - Sentimental Corp - Randy Prozac gets weird(er)
27:13 - Paranoia - Disney gets weird, typo squatting, Goggle, drive by downloads
35:40 - Urban Outraged - Also Surveillance Camera Man
39:30 - Lake City Quiet Pills - What's in the code
46:20 - 973-eht-namuh-973 - David Dennison's mind-breaking project
Music By Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Backrooms Wiki
This is the THE BEST Backrooms Game I've Ever Played video
The Backrooms (Found Footage) video by Kevin Pixels
99 Rooms [walkthrough] 2004 Flash game video
mortis.cc website
Exit Mundi archive page
The Death Clock
Death Date
Zombo
Sentimental Corp 
paranoia.com
Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery video on the Nexpo YouTube channel
Urban Outraged
Why does everyone hate Surveillance Camera Man? video
The Mystery of Surveillance Camera Man Explained video
The Lake City Quiet Pills Mystery on Know Your Meme
Lake City Quiet Pills video on The Rabbit Hole YouTube channel
Lake City Ammunition Plant website
973-eht-namuh-973
973 eht namuh Explained: My Look Into The Internets Most Mysterious Website - Elder's Vault original investigation video
I finally understand it. The answer is not what I expected post
973-Eht-Namuh-973.com The Oracle Forum
The Internet's Most Mysterious Websites video on Visual Venture YouTube channel (Lake City Quiet Pills, Time Cube, Mortis, Zombo, Sentimental Corp, OCT282011, Enricks.Angelfire, 973-eht-namuh-973)
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Global Warming Is Real

EPISODE 151 | Global Warming Is Real
Guest: Thomas Schueneman, environmental journalist, founder of the PlanetWatch Group, TDS Environmental Media and GlobalWarmingisReal.com
A chat about some of the more pervasive and commonplace climate change skepticism claims and just some general kvetching about where we are in this conversation these days. 
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Global Warming Is Real website
Global Warming Is Real podcast
TDS Environmental Network
PlanetWatch website
Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
The Great Replacement: The White Wing Goes Mainstream
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Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File

EPISODE 150 | Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File
Very often sheer naked greed is hidden behind a glossy finish of virtue, something we can plainly see in the stories of two Gemstones from the conspiracy world – G. Gordon Liddy’s whacked out Operation Gemstone plans to help Richard Nixon get reelected, and the outlandish and complicated Gemstone File, which might be the very first mega-conspiracy.
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01:58 - Operation Gemstone - Nixon in politics, Nixon really wanted to be re-elected, Operation Sandwedge, G. Gordon Liddy has ideas, a discussion about the fate of Jack Anderson, the Watergate break-in
17:39 - The Gemstone File - Authorship issues: "Bruce Porter Roberts", Mae Brussell, Stephanie Caruana, Factsheet Five finds a connection to CREEP
24:03 - The theory: Aristotle Onassis, Joe Kennedy, Meyer Lansky, Eugene Meyer and more; Howard Hughes get kidnapped, injured, doubled; Onassis hates Castro, Onassis hated the Kennedy brothers, RFK exposes Cosa Nostra, "sodium morphate", Onassis and mafia guys killed JFK, Onassis then owned LBJ
40:02 - The JFK conspirators move on, Onassis took out RFK, got the girl, got Nixon in office, Gerald Ford in the frame, "government as theater", the Group of 40 given to Kissinger,  Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick 
46:12 - Diamonds and Pearls - More deals, more deaths and a lot of money, the Onassis corpro-mafia syndicate fractures after his death, the Mormon Mafia leaked dirt, the Pentagon papers were fake, more deaths and more money, the Brezhnev flu, maybe becomes the Octopus? 
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More Info:
G. Gordon Liddy: Watergate’s Most Colorful Character on Politico
Notorious GEMSTONE Meeting in Attorney General’s Office: Illegal Activities Planned
How G. Gordon Liddy Bungled Watergate With an Office-Supply Request
Full text of "G. Gordon Liddy, Will : The Autobiography Of G. Gordon Liddy (1980)"
G. Gordon Liddy Describes GEMSTONE, the Plan He Presents to John Mitchell in 1972 video
Operation Gemstone The Dark Secrets Unveiled video on the Outlaw News Network YouTube channel
Gemstone meeting clip from TV show Gaslit
Trailer for TV series White House Plumbers
Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate video from the Behind the Bastards podcast
G. Gordon Liddy's Hardcore Tips For Prison on David Letterman
A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File full text, formatted
The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File article
Gemstone File blog
Real Gemstone File blog
Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island? in Playgirl by Stephanie Caruana
Who Really Calls the Shots? Bruce Roberts and The Gemstone File
The Gemstone File by Jim Keith full text
The Gemstone File: A Memoir by Stephanie Caruana on Amazon
Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone thesis by Gerald Carroll on Amazon
Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever? A deep dive into The Gemstone File (1975) video on Control Alt History YouTube channel
More Gemstone notions - The Opal File: The Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand
Possible sequel to Gemstone: The Octopus - EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
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Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky

EPISODE 149 | Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky
Russians are practical, artistic and deeply mystical. And they tend to fall under the sway of strong personalities. Like two people from the past - Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, and Helena Blavatsky, founded of Theosophy, which itself is the very root of the modern New Age movement.
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02:31 - Ra-Ra-Rasputin - The story of the Mad Monk, his weird death and his penis
17:31 - So You Think You're a Witch? - Helena Blavatsky goes form spoiled rich girl to wandering mystic, starts Theosophy, Emma and Alexis Coulomb try blackmail, the Hodgeson Report
29:01 - Rivers of Babylon - Theosophy's offbeat ideas about inherent mystic powers, the Seven Root Races
41:05 - Sorcerer's Puppet - Theosophy inspires others, Nazis, Neo-Theosophy, Agni Yoga, the I AM Activity, the Bridge to Freedom and the Great White Brotherhood
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Rasputin on biography.com
The Murder of Rasputin
Rasputin Was Poisoned, Shot, Beaten, and Drowned. But Did His Penis Survive?
Inside The Wild Myths And Legends Surrounding Rasputin’s Penis
HELENA BLAVATSKY The evolution of Theosophy
The birth of theosophy
Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part I) - Episode #66 of the Our Fake History podcast
Madame Blavatsky: a seeker of truth — and a fraud
The Dawn of Civilization: An Esoteric Account of the First Three Root Races
Chains, Globes, Rounds and Root Races
Theosophy: Origin of the New Age (Part 1)
The theosophical roots of Nazism
Theosophy and visual arts
Influences on the New Age movement
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The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends

EPISODE 148 | The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends
Something is happening right now that maybe we should all pay at least a little bit of attention to.It’s time to break out the nice dishes and give the place a good dusting, because we have company folks. We have a visitor. 
Probably a comet. But maybe not, according to some. Maybe it's an alien spaceship with bad intent. And it’s coming to get us.
UPDATE: Nothing happened. What a surprise. 
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03:21 - Wanderlust - 1I/ʻOumuamua, Avi Loeb, solar sails, technosignatures, 2I/Borisov, astronomical units (AUs)
12:56 - Poor Fractured Atlas - Avi Loeb gets into UAP, the ATLAS detection system, 3I/ATLAS, "normal" comets, maybe a planet seed
22:08 - Calling All Comets - 3I/ATLAS starts acting weird, the Dark Forest Hypothesis, an interstellar highway, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), nickel and iron
30:20 - In My House - A Mars flyby, the US government shuts down and conspiracy theories fill the void, a recap of weirdness, why it does not have "military implications"
39:15 - Supermassive Black Hole - The Overview Effect, real dangers, more stuff is probably coming
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
The Uncensored Guide To ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, And That Harvard Astronomer in Forbes
ʻOumuamua on RationalWiki
New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor on space.com
Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes
3rd interstellar visitor confirms a cosmic highway — Earth could be in ‘someone’s trajectory’ on EcoNews
This Mysterious Object From Our Solar System Might Be a Planet-Making Seed
“Physics Doesn’t Work Anymore”: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Traveling Backwards At 130,000 MPH Shatters Every Scientific Law
Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System
Interstellar object spotted shedding mysterious metals in way that defies science: 'It's extremely puzzling'
Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true? 
Scientists reveal where 'alien object' heading past Earth will actually be going
3I/ATLAS is Captured in New Images as Mysterious Object Cruises Past Mars—What Does the Latest Data Reveal?  
First Images of 3I/ATLAS from ExoMars TGO by Avi Loeb
Mysterious interstellar visitor spotted above Mars appears as 'massive cylindrical craft'
A Recap of the Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS on the Day of Its Closest Approach to Mars by Avi Loeb (the Trojan Horse article)
7 reasons why 3I/ATLAS's high-speed trajectory has military implications - nonsense article on Wion
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule From An Earlier Age Of The Universe
3I/ATLAS came from mysterious frontier of Early Milky Way? Scientists study interstellar comet's origin, track trajectory, travel speed, age
Physicists detect water's ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, space agencies say
The biggest threats to Earth from space
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Man Out of Time: The Comte St. Germain

EPISODE 147 | Man Out of Time: The Comte St. Germain
He composed and played music, spoke several languages, was versed in alchemy and the early sciences, and hung around with the likes of Mozart and Casanova, yet no one even knew his real name. Voltaire called him the “Wonderman”, though that may have been sarcasm, but most came to know him as the Comte, or Count, St. Germain. One of his many wild boasts and claims was that he was more than 500 years old. Perhaps even older than that.
Just who was this mysterious figure who showed up in 18th century salons? Was he more or less than what he claimed to be?
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02:17 - Complicated Shadows - Richard Chanfray makes claims, the Comte St. Germain
16:22 - Everyday I Write the Book - The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom and the Triangular Manuscript, Count Alessandro Cagliostro
23:15 - The Boy Named If - Blavatsky, Besant, Ballard and Bailey; incarnations and Bacons
29:18 - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Nicholas Flamel, the Wandering Jew, Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones, James Schafer and the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, Alex Chiu's rings, Bryan Johnson and Blueprint
41:46 - Accidents Will Happen - Cryogenics and Dr. James Bedford, paths towards immortality, the oldest living people to date
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Richard Chanfray on ChemEurope.com
Everything you wanted to know about Richard Chanfray, the Count of St. Germain on Sadhana 108
Saint-Germain: The Immortal Count on LiveAbout.com
The Count Of St. Germain: Who The Hell Was This Guy? on Modern Rogue
10 Theories about the Never-Aging Count Saint Germain on Lost in History
Count de St Germain – oldest man ever or clever trickster? on The Fortean Atheist
The Myth of Real Life IMMORTAL - The Count of Saint Germain video on the BE AMAZED YouTube channel
This Man Claimed to Be Immortal and History Can't Prove Otherwise video on Thoughty2 YouTube video
Jacques St. Germain, The Infamous Louisiana Vampire on Pelican State of Mind
10 Notable People Thought To Be Immortal on Listverse
10 Terrifying People Who Claim to Be Immortal video on the Top 5 best YouTube channel
The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Wiki
Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones on Kook Science
Alex Chiu on RationalWiki
Alex Chiu websites
This California millionaire is peddling eternal life. Why do so many people believe him? in the Los Angeles Times
Bryan Johnson websites portal
World's 'oldest' woman who 'didn't enjoy single day' in long life dies aged 129 in The Mirror
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The Bicameral World of the Zizians

EPISODE 146 | The Bicameral World of the Zizians
One striking thing about the many stories that have appeared about the Zizians and the crimes they are accused of committing, is that each one starts at a different place. Some start with the attack on a Vallejo landlord that resulted in his being run through with a samurai sword and then work backwards and then forwards. Others begin their tale with the shooting of an older couple in Pennsylvania. Still others kick things off with the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent up near the Canadian border. 
As a result, it can be a bit difficult to get a handle on exactly what happened when and what the several people currently in police custody are accused of. 
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LEFT BRAIN
02:28 - Gimme Some Truth - Ziz LaSota, Effective Altruism, x-risk, MIRI, transhumanism and the Singularity, CFAR, LessWrong
12:25 - Digital Witness - Roko's Basilisk, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, utilitarianism, the many-worlds interpretation, online censorship
22:58 - Adrift in Sleepwakefulness - The Zizians start as vegan anarchotranshumanists, unbucketing, the bicameral mind, unihemispheric sleep (UHS), sleep deprivation, Ziz Theory, the Rationalist Fleet, Curtis Lind offers a place to stay, the first suicide, self-blackmail
RIGHT BRAIN
35:02 - Friendship Train - The Westminster Woods protest, arrests and a lack of cooperation, Ziz dies, Curtis Lind is stabbed repeatedly, Ziz is alive, Richard and Rita Zajko are killed; Michelle Zajko, Daniel Blank and Ziz arrested; Michelle blames LessWrong, Ziz is released and vanishes, more legal issues
50:19 - Lose Control - Ophelia Bauckholt and Teresa Youngblut wander around Vermont, a firefight with the Border Patrol, Curtis Lind is killed, Maxmilian Snyder dictates a letter; Zajko, Blank and Ziz arrested (again); trials are set
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
LessWrong on RationalWIki
Roko's Basilisk on RationalWiki
Zizian Murdercult summary, for those out of the loop on X by @Aella_Girl - January 29, 2025
Who is ‘Ziz’? How a mysterious group with roots in the Bay Area is linked to six deaths in the San Francisco Chronicle
‘Death upon death’: Defendant in killing tied to cult-like ‘Zizian’ group dictates 1,500-word letter over jail phone in the San Francisco Chronicle
How a Vermont border agent's death exposed violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on CBS News
A Vermont border agent’s death was the latest violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group on AP
Alleged leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group to be held without bail after arrest in The Guardian
Zizians: What we know about the 'cult' linked to six deaths on the BBC
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians by Evan Ratliff in Wired
Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail on Futurism
Who Are the Zizians: Why 6 Killings Are Linked to Alleged Vegan Techie "Cult" on E! News
What to Know About the Alleged Zizian "Cult" Linked to 6 Killings on E! News
Possible Suicide Cluster Linked to Zizian Group, on Top of Killings on SFist
Judge confirms trial date for ‘Zizian cult’ murder case on Courthouse News Service
Grand jury indicts accused leader of cultlike 'Zizian' group on USA Today
She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started in the New York Times
Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation on AP
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Trumpspiracies: What a Tangled Web

EPISODE 145 | Trumpspiracies: What a Tangled Web
Ever since Donald Trump first decided to run for the highest office in the United States, he has promoted an astonishing number of conspiracy theories. It’s almost as if a New York real estate baron famous for lying to clients, not paying his bills and exploiting loopholes for his own benefit had learned, somewhere along the way, that “truth” is a slippery subject. And because he’s not a very deep thinker, he has, like many people, confused truth with facts.
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02:25 - Liar, Liar - 9/11 nonsense, open season on Muslims
08:50 - Would I Lie to You? - Boogeyman Obama, Birtherism 
19:02 - Suspicious Minds - The Clintons, Biden, robot clones, Canada, assassinations, self delusion as super power
29:22 - Liar, Liar, Burn in Hell - Science, medicine, the Great Replacement, crime stats, Britain First, tweets and retweets
38:31 - Dance Little Liar - Haitians eating pets, conspiracy theorists in his administration
46;40 - Liar (It Takes One to Know One) - 2016 Russian election interference, Spygate, #Obamagate, Trump's impeachments
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
58 Donald Trump Conspiracy Theories (And Counting!): The Definitive Trump Conspiracy Guide (from 2016)
President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump
The birth of the Obama 'birther' conspiracy
‘Birtherism,’ Trump and anti-Black racism: Conspiracy theorists twist evidence to maintain status quo
Trump's history of launching "birther" conspiracy theories against rivals
Trump promotes 'totally baseless' birther conspiracy theory against Nikki Haley
Trump claims media 'dishonest' over crowd photos
Comparison: Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s inauguration crowds
Trump's crowd-size obsession to be tested at inauguration after 2017 controversy
The surprising reason why the Park Service won't count folks at Trump's inauguration
'It eats him alive inside': Trump's latest attack shows endless obsession with Obama
12 false claims Trump has made about Obama since last month (from 2020)
Trump's obsession with Obama took an ominous turn this week
Twitter use by Donald Trump
A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets
FBI 2019 crime statistics
Trump Says He’s Going To Check If ‘Somebody Stole’ Fort Knox $400 Billion Gold Supply. What We Know.
No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio
‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians
Altogether fitting and proper? Trump repeatedly compares himself to Abraham Lincoln
Donald Trump: Height, Weight, Obesity, and Documentation
Seriously, What Is “Obamagate”? | The Daily Social Distancing Show (video)
How Trump’s Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis
Trump impeachment trial: Conspiracy theories and fidget spinners
How the Senate Could Bar Donald Trump from Running for President in 2024
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Unwell and Unregulated: The Militia Movement

EPISODE 144 | Unwell and Unregulated: The Militia Movement
The United States has always had a certain comfort level with violence, or at least the idea of it. Throughout its history, groups of armed citizens will threaten to use, or actually use, force to get their point across, either to effect change or to prevent that from happening.
But in the 1990s, something changed, and groups formed around new ideologies that sometimes had little to do with objective reality. The Militia Movement was mainly rural, white, far-right Christians who’d been nurtured on conspiracy theories and half truths which they had chosen to believe because these made some sort of emotional sense to them, and because they had an unerring sense that they were right and everyone else was wrong. And some of them were willing to go to great lengths to achieve their aims.
This is the breeding ground for the modern conspirasphere.
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02:38 - Saturday Night Special - Precursors, the Minutemen, the Patriotic Party, Liberty Lobby, the Christian Defense League (CDL), Posse Comitatus 
08:27 - Guns in the Sky - The Late Great Planet Earth, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, The Turner Diaries, Hunter, evangelicals, the Satanic Panic, still more anti-Jewish ideas, "Red Dawn"
14:20 - Ride a White Horse - Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper, Hour of the Time, Mysteries of Babylon
23:40 - Ruby Tuesday - Agenda 21, the Weaver family, the Ruby Ridge siege
30:56 - This Could Be Heaven - Victor Houteff starts Shepherd's Rod (later Branch Davidians), Vernon Howell becomes David Koresh and takes over, the Waco Siege
36:48 - Oklahoma Blues - The Militia of Montana (MOM), the Michigan Militia (Wolverines), Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing
39:56 - Militias take off and expand, attracting scammers and opportunists - Ron Cole, General Benton Partin, Mary Elizabeth Broderick, Roy Schwasinger & We the People, LeRoy Schweitzer & the Montana Freemen, Justus Township standoff
45:30 - Insane in the Brain - Militias also attract terrorists and lunatics - Willie Ray Lampley & the Universal Church of God (Yahweh) plus the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia plan massive bombings, the Unabomber, Georgia Republic, the Mountaineer Militia, Donald Beauregard & and Trix cereal, Mark "Mike from Michigan" Koernke, Norm Olsen, Charles Duke, Bob Fletcher and Belgian weather control, John Parsons talks purple UFOs and starts the Tri-States Militia of South Dakota (but turns out to be on the FBI payroll), Darrel Frech, Rick McLaren and space rays, Ted Gunderson sells pseudoscience gear, Bo "Rambo" Gritz pushes Y2K, Jack McLamb writes Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Militia movement in the 1990s at EBSCO
Militias in the US at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
5 Things You Need to Know about Private Militia Groups from the National Police Foundation
Examining Extremism: The Militia Movement at CSIS
False Patriots report at the Southern Poverty Law Center, May 8, 2001
Posse Comitatus
The Late Great Planet Earth
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred on BBC (audio, 9 minutes)
What to Do With the Most Dangerous Book in America
The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE PATRIOT/MILITIA MOVEMENT
Behold a Pale Horse
Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born
Maniacs and Militias: Waco to Extremist Groups
Turning Point: The Rise of Right-Wing Politics, the Waco Siege, and the Response of American Law Enforcement
Legacy Everlasting: how the 1993 Waco siege became a symbolic rallying cry for the American far right decades later 
Clinton administration’s deadly mistake in Waco gave rise to Oklahoma City, Columbine in the New York Post (labelled as "entertainment", which seems odd) 
The infamous Texas siege with a ‘straight line’ to QAnon, right-wing militias, and January 6
Two Minutes Past Nine: The story behind the Oklahoma City bombing on BBC
Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing, 25 Years Later at the Brennan Center for Justice 
From Ruby Ridge to Oklahoma City: The Radicalization of Timothy McVeigh paper
The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People 1996 paper
Beyond the Bombing: The Militia Menace Grows report by the ADL
Operation Vampire Killer 2000 text
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