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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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Paranoia Is Forever: Disney Conspiracies

EPISODE 143 | Paranoia Is Forever: Disney Conspiracies
Walt Disney’s goal was to make the “Happiest Place on Earth”, and to delight and inspire both children and adults through the ages. Many would say he succeeded beyond even his own wildest expectations. Others might say that Disney is, and always has been, a place of evil. And when you get as big as Disney has, you are naturally going to attract some rather wild narratives. 
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01:58 - Uncle Rat - Uncle Walt: anti-Jewish, Nazi, racist, head frozen 
15:05 - Grim Grinning Ghosts - The parks, deaths and accidents, ghosts, the Haunted Mansion attraction
20:32 - There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit. - Occultism at the parks and in the movies, sex is everywhere, pedofiles, dirty pictures in "The Rescuers", the makers of "White Wilderness" murdered a bunch of lemmings
30:58 - The Maleficent Seven - The company, the Disney Vault, copyright issues, Disney hates women
38:42 - In Canis Corpore Transmuto - Ron DeSantis tangles with the Mouse, Disney is surprisingly progressive or "woke" depending on who you are
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Fact-Checking the Age-Old Rumors of Walt Disney’s Dark Side
Was Walt Disney Frozen?
Deaths at Disney: Top 13 Deaths at Disney Theme Parks
The death that sparked the legend that 'no one dies at Disneyland'
MARR: Death At Disneyland - rewriting of the article "Waiting in Line to Die" by John Marr
The Dark Side of Disney
Real Human Bones Were Originally Used In Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride
Doombuggies website
Did a Former Disney World Princess 'Reveal the Truth'?
The Hidden Messages in Disney: A Closer Look at Occult Symbolism on Chick Wick News
DISNEY=666 video on Amazing VIP World YouTube channel
21 Completely Filthy Hidden Sex References in Disney Movies in Cosmopolitan
Snopes: Is the Word 'Sex' Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
Snopes: Is a Risqué Image of Sand Dunes Hidden in 'The Lion King'?
Snopes: Was a Phallus Purposely Added to the Artwork for 'The Little Mermaid' VHS Cover?
Snopes: Does the Minister in 'Little Mermaid' Get an Erection?
Snopes: Did a Topless Woman Appear in Disney's 'The Rescuers'? (True, BTW)
Snopes: Did Disney Fake Lemming Suicide for the Nature Documentary 'White Wilderness'? (Also true)
The Darker Side of Disney ("boy love" symbols)
The Dark Side of Disney Part 1 at Little Light Studios
The Dark Side of Disney Part 2 at Little Light Studios
Global Ranking of largest entertainment companies
10 Things You Didn't Know About The Disney Vault's History
Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: ‘It’s Finally Happening’ in Variety
Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images on BBC
How the Disney-Midjourney Lawsuit Could Reshape the Battle Over AI and Copyright
Copyright, Mickey Mouse and what it means to be within the public domain
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Popular copyright infringement cases highlighting how Disney is protective of its intellectual property rights
The Moana Lawsuit: Writer Woodall Sues Disney for Infringement
Did Disney or DeSantis win their big fight? Yes. in the Tampa Bay Times
Snopes: Harlan Ellison and Disney (true)
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Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)

EPISODE 142 | Project 2025: The First 180 Days (World Is Weird 15)
Donald Trump said he didn’t really know much about Project 2025 except that they sure liked him. And yet, of 313 specific Project 2025 initiatives, he’s already enacted 108 of them, and another 63 are actively in the works as of this recording. Quite a coincidence, wouldn’t you say?
Project 2025 put a lot of importance of a sort of blitzkrieg if their boy won the 2024 election, a flurry of activity to define the first 180 days of his presidency and hopefully create so much change that, no matter what happens in future elections (if there are any) many of the changes they want to see happen will end up sticking around. That benchmark date was July 19. 
So, let’s look at Project 2025. What they say, and some of their own justifications for why they say it. And we’ll also see just how much Trump has actively assisted them in realizing their vision for a very different America than the world has ever seen. 
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02:40 - The Mandate for Leadership, Version IX - The first of the Four Pillars, "cultural Marxism"; yes, it really is Gilead; white nationalists and Christian nationalists, family is the key, four main goals
08:52 - Three More Pillars - Info gathering, the Presidential Administration Academy, "climate change" is code for Christian depopulation, a secret playbook, Carter was evil, the DoD and Space Force
13:16 - Economy - General ideas, "fair trade" vs. "free trade", the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce
21:05 - Environment - General ideas, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior
25:09 - Transportation - General ideas, get married and make babies or no funding, the Department of Transportation, the FAA
27:11 - Education - General ideas, education is a private good, not a public one; the Department of Education, Parental Bill of Rights
33:12 - Identity - General ideas, LGBTQ+ and trans people ("radical gender ideology"), DEI, pornography
36:15 - Journalism - General ideas, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the FCC, the US Agency for Global Media (now a One America News organ), the Open Technology Fund
38:39 - Healthcare - General ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the CDC, the Department of Health is really the Department of Life, marriage, abortions, Planned Parenthood, in vitro fertilization, teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services
47:43 - Legal - General ideas, affirmative action, the FBI, the death penalty, the Secret Service as military cops, the Department of Justice, FACE Act no longer enforced, don't say trans
53:16 - National Security - Foreign policy shifts, USAID, NATO, nukes, the Department of Defense, Cybercom, the State Department, strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia
57:26 - Immigration - CBP, ICE, TSA, USCIS, refugees, asylum pay-to-stay scheme, birthright citizenship, mass deportations, more police, FEMA funds, the Department of Homeland Security
01:04:42 - Elections - General ideas, the FEC gets limits, photo ID to vote, armed police at polling stations
01:06:58 - Expansion of the Executive - The President is boss, loyalists only, the Insurrection Act of 1807, more surveillance
01:09:24 - Federal Staffing - Bring back the spoils-and-patronage system, the White House, the National Security Council
01:12:01 - Final Thoughts - Trump totally knows about Project 2025, the vision for an America-that-never-was, why the hell didn't you vote?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Project 2025 Tracker website (updated daily)
r/Keep_Track
Full text of "Project 2025 Mandate For Leadership"
The “Mandate for Leadership” Series
Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos - video on ProPublica YouTube channel
5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation
Project 2025 Quick Read
Subject-by-Subject Breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 from the Stop Project 2025 Taskforce 
Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part I - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
Project 2025 at 100 Days: Part II - part of Tracking Project 2025 at the Center for Progressive Reform
Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto
A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
Project 2025, Explained at the ACLU
Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances at the Center for American Progress
Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term on the BBC
The People’s Guide to Project 2025 at Democracy Forward
An army of MAGA think tanks behind him, it’s Trump’s Washington now at Politico
‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap at Politico
MAGA is whatever Trump decides it will be at Politico
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - DeSmog analysis
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. 
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER 

Spirits in the Material World: Mediums and Spiritualism

EPISODE 141 | Spirits in the Material World: Mediums and Spiritualism
The late 19th and early 20th were rife with claims of contact with spirits of the departed, and plenty of people made a pretty penny convincing the grieving or the curious that they had the right stuff, the special connection to the Other Side. But it has continued past then, and even today there are those who would prey upon people to make a fast buck, supercharging the woo space in the process.
We’ll look at mediums, magicians, seances, channelers and more, including some of the tricks these con artists use to ply their ignoble trade. And we’ll also examine what’s up with the Ouija board.
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SECTIONS
Spirit (I Believe in You) - The Fox Sisters start it all im 1849, spiritism and spiritualism, the Cottingley Fairies
Watching You Without Me - Cold readings, the Barnum Effect, shotgunning, Forer and Criss Angel, John Edward the Douche, the vanishing negative, turning a negative, the Rainbow Ruse, flattery, warm readings, hot readings, spirit guides, how to avoid being tricked
Home by the Sea - Types of mediums, scammers getting caught (Daniel Dunglas Home, Rosina Mary Showers, Francis Ward Monck, the Davenport Brothers, May and Lizzie Bangs, Derek Acorah, Thomas John)
The Ghost in You - Origins of the Ouija Board in 1890, ideomotor response (IMR), some believe and like, some believe and don't like, Yeats used it to write poetry, Pearl Curran and "Patience Worth" writes book, Emily Grant Hutchings writes a book with Mark Twain's ghost
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Rosemary Isabel Brown channels dead composers, James Merrill uses a Ouija to write award-winning poetry, Jane Roberts starts the channeling industry with "Seth"
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The Fox Sisters (a haunted history)
Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses Fraud on the Skeptic Report
spiritism (spiritualism) entry in the Skeptic's Dictionary
The Spiritualists' National Union website
Society for Psychical Research website
A Pagan's Lexicon : Animal Spirits
How to find your animal spirit guide on Mooky Chick
John Edward on Villains Wiki
Why do a quarter of people across the world believe humans have psychic abilities?
A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS by Harry Houdini, full text
James Randi Educational Foundation website
Kennard Novelty Company website
Written by Pearl Curran…or by Ouija Board?
The book was supposedly written by Mark Twain’s ghost 100 years ago
How to use the Ouija Board
The secret of the Ouija board in The Week
DIY Ouija Board!
Rosemary Brown obituary
'Even the spirits get a say': A Look Into James Merrill's Ouija Poems
The Problem of Seth's Origin: A Case Study of the Trance-Possession Mediumship of Jane Roberts, paper by Paul Cunningham
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DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. 
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER 

Rock On: Freemasons (Big 'Uns 7)

EPISODE 140 | Rock On: Freemasons (Big 'Uns 7)
Who are the Freemasons? People sure freak out about the them, even though many don’t even know what they get up to. What the heck do they do at their meetings? Why all the secrets and secret handshakes and code words and the like? Are they weird, scary, evil or just harmless?
Let’s take a look and see.
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SECTIONS
Long Live Rock - Masonic origins, Templars, variations and offshoots
Stone Stone Picnic - The Illuminati, Freemasonry expands
Pounded on a Rock - Are they creepy?, Anti-Masonry and the Morgan Affair
Like a Rolling Stone - The Taxil Hoax of 1885, Jack the Ripper as a Mason
Let's Go Get Stoned - The Affair of the Cards
Stoned Is the Way of the Walk - Propaganda Due (P2), the Vatican Bank Scandal and the Years of Lead
Might As Well Get Stoned - Riding the goat, Satanism, the NWO, secret masters, online sources, famous Masons
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
EPISODE 21 | The Knights Templar (Big 'Uns 2)
EPISODE 18| The Illuminati: Bavarian Brouhaha (Big 'Uns 1)
Episode 10 | Fright Delays: Denver Airport Is the Nexus of Evil
masonicinfo.com Site Map
Freemasons For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Freemasons entry on RationalWIki
Freemasonry Watch webshite
Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor
Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge book
New Initiates Guide to Freemasonry - West Lancashire Freemasons
Spooky Rituals of The Freemasons | The Freemasons Explained - video on The Great Courses YouTube channel
The Midnight Masons website
The Heresies of Masonic Ritual on The European Conservative
Elks, Shriners, and Masons: How 'old man' frats got their names and symbols
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual -  interview with Pannill Camp on the Hold That Thought podcast
Musicians Who Are Freemasons on Esoteric Freemasons
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. 
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER