Top products from r/conspiratard
We found 28 product mentions on r/conspiratard. We ranked the 108 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 3
2. Them: Adventures with Extremists
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Simon Schuster
3. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Holt Paperbacks
4. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Griffin
5. Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
6. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Great product!
8. Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
9. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
11. America Views the Holocaust, 1933-45 : A Brief Documentary History
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
12. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
On Killing The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
13. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Pantheon Books
14. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
15. The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
16. Mein Kampf
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
a respected translation...know your enemy
17. James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
18. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Dell
Thanks for the recommendation. I read a whole lot. I did, in fact, read that article I just have some criticisms as you know.
You must realize you have just made a snide remark. I hope. I would suggest you read this book that I really enjoy: "Mistakes Were Made, but Not By Me" http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0156033909
It is truly an excellent book by very accomplished social scientists.
Area 51, eh? Wake up Sheeples and connect the dots!!!1!!!1!
“ In the early 1960s, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) watched with growing alarm as the Soviet Union equipped its Arab client states with its latest-generation fighter, the MiG-21. Little was known about the new aircraft, but its capabilities were rumored to be superior to anything the Israelis possessed. Could the new MiG tip the balance of power in the Middle East? [IAF chief] General Motti Hod worried that it just might.
“ With Hod’s urging, Mossad set out to get a MiG-21 into Israeli hands. ...
“ ...
“ [O]n August 16 [1966], Captain [Monir] Radfa took off from Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad on a navigation training mission. He had managed to secure a long-range external fuel tank for this flight; otherwise, the MiG-21 would never have had the range to make the 486 miles to Radfa’s real destination: Hatzor Air Base in Israel.
“ ...
“ The Israelis had just secured the Cold War brass ring. In the months that followed, their experts dissected the MiG-21’s assembly, avionics, radar system, weapons, and construction techniques. After they mapped the MiG’s weaknesses and vulnerable points on the ground, the IAF’s top test pilots flew it to figure out its performance envelope. Eventually, it was flown in mock air combat against Israel's Mirage IIIs in order to develop tactics that could exploit the MiG’s weaknesses. The plane, which the Israelis designated number 007 in homage to James Bond, served as the single greatest treasure trove of aerial intelligence the IAF had ever received. It also became a currency more valuable than gold.
“ ...
“ ... After the Six-Day War, the Israelis approached the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and offered to lend the United States their precious MiG-21. In return, the Israelis wanted to purchase F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers.
“ President Johnson personally approved the deal and also released the A-4 Skyhawks [the sale of a small number of which was suspended as a result of Israel’s preemptive attack] for delivery to the IAF. In exchange for the MiG-21, the Americans supplied the Israelis with fifty gun-armed F-4E Phantoms. These aircraft played a pivotal role in saving Israel in the years to come; the deal itself became the first major connection between the United States and the Israel military. ...
“ In early 1968, the Israelis crated up the MiG-21 and sent it to Groom Lake, Nevada--known in conspiracy circles as Area 51. There the USAF’s Foreign Technology Division undertook the same rivet-by-rivet study of the MiG-21 the Israelis had conducted the year before. At last, the USAF had its hands on the weapon that was causing its fighter-bomber wings in Southeast Asia so much grief.
“ Dubbed the Have Donut program, the testing lasted for months, and the MiG-21 underwent a complete technical, engineering, and operation evaluation. ... "
Source: Fred Burton and John Bruning (Chasing Shadows) (2011)
Yeah I wish I could give you some better points about your mom but that's one of those things she's going to have to work through on her own. Your little sister though doesn't deserve to just hear crap. Honestly, one of the best refutations to conspiracy beliefs is to just point out the absurdities of it all. Laugh at them, because they have no sense of humility.
A good book on the subject if The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer. Maybe you could see if your local library has that or even buy it for her at some point and see if she's into it.
"Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Conspiracist Underground" by Jonathan Kay is pretty great. It tries to understand conspiracy theorists' motivations and reasons for thinking the way they do in a non-mocking way, as many of them (9/11 truthers in particular) are actually pretty intelligent and patriotic, wishing for the rule of law to prevail over whoever they believe really did 9/11.
http://www.amazon.com/Among-Truthers-Cognitive-Underworld-American/dp/0062004816
Also: "The Great Derangement: War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" by Matt Taibbi has a section about his time immersed in the 9/11 truther movement, followed by a pretty biting and hilarious analysis of the fundamental logical failures that underpin all 9/11 conspiracy thinking.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Great-Derangement-Terrifying-Politics/dp/0385520344
There's a great book you might enjoy:
The author, Jonathan Kay, is the editor of Canada's The National Post newspaper.
There's a lot of historical context in the subject of mind control of the masses you could get up speed with;
It started in 1896 by Gustav Le Bon with, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind from there we have Walter Lippman's Public Opinion. Those two works formed the underpinnings of the pioneers that followed.
Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, drew from his uncle, Lippman, and Le Bon building a public relations and advertising empire eventually hired by the US government as a consultant in areas of propaganda and public opinion "massaging". Edward Bernays' work and monumental effect on 20th century advertising and propaganda is brilliantly covered in Adam Curtis' BBC documentary, The Century of the Self.
America's own Noam Chomsky goes in great depth in public opinion control in his book Manufacturing Consent: The Political economy of the Mass Media. His book and historical background is covered in an extensive interview with Chomsky about the subject.
There is no evidence. Podesta mentions pizza in like 3 emails and everyone flips out and over analyzes everything to piece together stuff that isn't there.
"But that picture is weird" Doesn't mean its a child sex ring.
"But they are gay lovers" Oh so being gay = child sex ring?
"They are business partners!" So anyone you have ever been business partners with or worked for/with suddenly shares your same sexual preference and helps develop an underground child sex trafficking ring?
"This artist is a whack job. Just look at her art" Yup she is nuts....oh this is also evidence for child sex...it's exhausting.
This is how every single conspiracy theory works. You grab a couple "facts" interject your own opinion which can change the context of those "facts" tie it loosely to other "facts" pose a question "Isn't it odd that x is related to x?" Let the audience feel like they have been apart of discovering this complicated theory.
If your interested this is a fantastic book a couple people from this forum have talked about it before too I think.
https://www.amazon.com/VOODOO-HISTORIES-CONSPIRACY-SHAPING-HISTORY/dp/0224074709
Another thread about debunking:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebunkThis/comments/5dqwta/debunk_this_pizzagate/
Based on this book I believe. Dear white people
Philip DeFranco did a piece on it that I thought was pretty good.
I recommend Jon's book dealing with this and other conspiratards. Highly amusing.
http://www.amazon.com/Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0743233212/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368503805&sr=8-1&keywords=them+adventures+with+extremists
Here's a great book of primary sources on the topic http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312133936/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
It was a great book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385334966?pc_redir=1411972918&robot_redir=1 I've been wanting to read this, it seem interesting
If you're ever interested in a really fun Neitzsche-like romp through the period, might I recommend Robert Eisenman's work...
Even so, everybody massively overestimates how much evidence survives from the period and place, and how much of it is objectively reliable. As I said before, Josephus is a crank, Tacitus is revolted by the subject, and the Gnostic Gospels (yes, they come up too from time to time) are five translation jobs away from even being coherent, let alone reliable. The Christian gospels are extremely biased, but start to look reliable in comparison to most pseudo-Historians' attempted sources...
Get Mistakes were made, but not by me as a general introduction to the pervasive biases that affect everyone. It is well enough referenced to launch a grad student career. Tip of the iceberg of the research that is out there.
This book is decent It also has a chapter on Ayn Rand objectivism as a cult.
Also see another book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct/dp/1250008808/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=128C3144EKDPV7SQPYRY
Among the Truthers is also not bad.
One of the cycling official reasons, yes. For a less jingoistic understanding of US foreign policy, I might suggest The Grand Chessboard by Brzezinski and Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky and Herman. In short, the US would never mobilize its considerable war power at such cost just out of pure, altruistic desire to topple a dictator. No doubt you're aware of the many dictators the US has installed and supported over the years.
Synopsis for the lazy. Amazon has it for ~13$...also can get it on the kindle!
Is that the book?
Here ya go.
But if you really have to
>Open up your eyes. Then you'll realize they want Genocide.
>Tell em' once again. No-ones trying to blend out the Africans.
>Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, White countries for Everyone.
>There's no place in modern Europe, no chance for ethnic purity.
>No-one ever says this, bout' African or Asian countries.
>There is no justification.
>Open up your eyes, then you'll realize they want genocide. Anti-Racist is a code-word for Anti-White.
>Tell em' once again, no-ones trying to blend out the Africans.
>Anti-Racist is a code-word for Anti-White.
Why People Believe Weird Things is up next on my reading list.
"Why People Believe Weird Things" debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-People-Believe-Weird-Things/dp/0805070893
i actually really liked this book for this fairly specific topic
it's not supremely comprehensive, but it has a lot of insight into the history of conspiracy theories in America, and gives a lot of nuanced analysis of lots of examples of conspiracy theories through the ages. it's also pretty approachable for the layperson, but manages to be insightful nonetheless. de
it's also worth noting that some countries are more prone to conspiracy theories specifically because of their regimes intentionally spreading propaganda, ie like a huge chunk of Russians subscribe to moon landing hoaxes. that said, I do think there's definitely a difference in terms of how many Americans are willing to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon.
I'm very old, so originally I was gotten, briefly, by that stupid loose change video. There was another video, appropriately titled "Fuck Loose Change", that undid it for me, although I'm not sure how authoritative that one is.
I'm not sure if this'll be any help, since I never really lost myself in the blogspam and other youtub spam.
Recommended reading: Them, by Jon Ronson.
I read the book Ghost Wars: A History of the CIA in Afghanistan from 1979 to 2001. I never was more than 'maybe' on 9/11 being a conspiracy, but reading this and having the endless footnotes killed all doubt. Plus it has the answers he's clearly looking for. And its a damn good story
Shadow banned - Nope haven't heard anything from those with the power to do anything. I'm okay wherever I can approve of my own comments. What I've had to say in /r/EndlessWar has been approved of also, as well as elsewhere, but I'm at the mercy of the moderators.
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Projects Have Donut", "Have Drill" and "Have Ferry"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51#Foreign_Technology_Evaluation
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Shadows-Special-Lifelong-Assassin/dp/0230620558/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318824960&sr=8-2
In the 'Search inside book function' search for " In early 1968 " and click on the entry for page 81.
The background for what appears on page 81, is the following (from the same book)"
“During the Korean War, the USAF claimed a seven-to-one kill rate over the Communist MiG-15s it faced. Despite the fact that the USAF was heavily outnumbered and faced a very good fighter in the MiG-15, its tactics and training carried the day. Yet only a generation later, the USAF could not conquer an air force a fraction of its size over North Vietnam. Even worse, that air force kept inflicting jarring defeats on the USAF’s strike aircraft.
“By late 1967, the days of seven-to-one kill rations were long past. From October 1967 until President Lyndon Johnson suspended air operations over North Vietnam in 1968, the MiGs scored a five-to-one kill rate against the USAF’s latest jets and fighter-bombers. ... "