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Fisking Fisk’s fiskers

August 28th, 2007 No Comments

So, the world (well, bits of it) are all in a tizzy because Robert Fisk believes that 9/11 was an inside job.People believe silly things all the time. In this case, however, it seems people are believing silly things about Fisk.Sure, Fisk has said a number of things which we might questionable, objectionable or just [...]

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Tripartite Division of Labour

July 5th, 2007 2 Comments

Mr. Paul Litterick, of The Fundy Post recently asked:
[A]re there instances of conspiracy theories that turn out to be correct?
To which I answer a resounding ‘Yes,’ but in three parts.
One: Any explanation of an event that references a Conspiracy is a Conspiracy Theory
This answer is simple; the explanation of the death of Gaius Julius Caesar [...]

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The Worse of Both Worlds

July 2nd, 2007 2 Comments

Inbetween reading academic tomes and watching ‘Doctor Who’ I do, on occasion, read spurious Conspiracy Theory literature. As of today I have finished (read that either way) with the whole ‘Bloodline of Christ’ fandango that resulted famously in ‘The Da Vinci Code’ (and should have ended more famously with acres of media coverage of the [...]

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