A visit with an all-conspiracy influencer site

There has been some recent concern about deaths and disappearances of scientists and others involved in the study of nuclear issues, UFOs and related matters. Yesterday's Daily Wire piece linked above the fold in JJ's Morning Report took the sensible position that some of these cases deserved more attention than others. There was one recent death, that of David Wilcock, that did not make their list of dead or missing scientists, but a People Magazine article about his death was linked. David Wilcock, Paranormal YouTuber and Writer, Dies by Suicide at 53.

This piece was not included in my conspiracy theorist influencer's information sources for his followers. Neither was a longer piece in the New York Post. Those pieces would expose his followers to the "Rockefeller education system", no doubt. Instead, he posted extremely short clips of Wilcock talking about life and his philosophy.

Boulder County Colorado posted a very careful update on the investigation of Wilcock's death which included a nice quasi-obituary. Due to "public interest". Police arrived before he shot himself, but took cover because he fired a random shot after their arrival.

Nevertheless, commenters at our influencer's site, rather than looking up the information, asked each other

"Where is the body cam footage?",

"Where is the 911 recording?" (included in the government release), and so forth.

Many commenters did not believe he was dead. He was in a witness protection program. He had been taken to another astral plane. Or he had been murdered before a staged suicide. All of these takes were more plausible than the government's report. Even if they contradicted each other.

Anyway, Wilcock had some reasons to be deeply depressed. According to one report I saw he was 500,000 dollars in debt due to the failure of an airplane company. There were other fall-outs with those he had counted on as friends. Never mind. He had spoken against suicide in the past.

In any case, more of us need to engage in "global meditation", as urged by Wilcock.

This same influencer calls anyone who believes anything that NASA (or any other organization that sends something into space) says or writes a "believer".

This video takes an interesting tack: It was not possible to fake a moon landing in 1969.

Once you’re forced to hypothesize whole new technologies to keep your conspiracy possible, you’ve stepped over into the realm of magic. It demands a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know.

What’s dangerous about that is that it blinds you to the real conspiracies that authorities are perpetrating on you right now.

The "All Conspiracy" folks must ignore this kind of thinking.

WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: Frauds All the Way Down

Looks to be a race on to see whose assets shrink fastest: Ilhan Omar from “better accounting,” or the Southern Poverty Law Center from criminal prosecution, fines, and more lawsuits to come. (By the way, why hasn’t Omar or someone ever launched the Northern Poverty Law Center? Is there something extra special about southern poverty?) Move over turtles: It’s frauds all the way down. (Plus, did you know that pickleball is now one of the leading problems in America? See the headline section.)

Music

Andy Williams

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Last week's thread, April 18, Freedom of Thought and Religion

UPDATE:

Just Facts Daily:

Pope Leo claims that “hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty” because “disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few,” and this needs to be fixed by a “more equitable distribution of wealth.”
IN FACT, extreme poverty is concentrated in nations with high levels of government corruption, communistic policies, and low levels of human capital like useful skills and mutual trust. Although the root causes of poverty are varied and hard to objectively measure because association does not prove causation, the following facts suggest that wealth attainment didn’t cause it, and wealth redistribution won’t fix it:

See particulars at the link.

Comments are closed on last week's thread so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on an old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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