a travelogue
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11/08/07
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Travelling In America, Where Everyone’s A Suspect
Filed “we gotta get out of this place.” Here’s the story of what it’s like to be a foreign traveller visiting the United States. Contrasting this with my own experiences abroad is downright frightening. Nepal, for instance, may have a …continue reading »
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10/17/07
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Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in America Without a Trace
This is by far the most comprehensive, paranoid and occasionally illegal guide to disappearing I’ve ever run across, but it speaks to the extreme lengths one might have to go to “live off the grid” as it were, in modern …continue reading »
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08/14/07
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The New Scientist On Conspiracy Theories
The New Scientist recently published an interesting article on conspiracy theories and why we believe them. The article is locked behind a paywall, but the link above leads to a reprint (probably an illegal reprint, but hey, knowledge want to …continue reading »
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05/30/07
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The Truth About Pearl Harbor
Neatorama has been reprinting sections of Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader, including this one on whether or not there was a conspiracy to let the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. My question is why is there a conspiracy to suppress …continue reading »
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01/09/07
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Boing Boing: London metro police poster
“This is an actual British Government poster outside a London Metro. Looks like they ripped it straight from the set of Brazil.” Creepy I tell you…continue reading »
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12/28/06
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Old FBI memo: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is commie propaganda
Just in case you thought the government only recently went crazy… FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” was Communist propaganda. The enlighteningly titled memo in question is: “COMMUNIST …continue reading »
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05/17/06
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Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
Paranoia about the looming oil crisis and ensuing shortages never gets old. What the topic really needs is a good disaster film, you can never have too many disaster/post apocalypse films.continue reading »