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Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock. Barns once filled with chattering birds were suddenly silent. Employees were anguished by having to kill sickened animals. The family business, started in …
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By R.J. Rushdoony One of the prevailing beliefs on the right and on the left is in conspiracies. People like to believe, “They did it to us.” Now a conspiracy is a plan by a group of men to accomplish a particular goal, and the goal may be good or bad. There has been no lack of conspiracies in …
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The Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting that claimed 10 lives Saturday was an event shaped by, and for, internet platforms, including message boards and streaming and social media sites. Now, as the predominantly Black neighborhood that suspected killer Payton Gendron targeted is left reeling, whether …
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Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock. Barns once filled with chattering birds were suddenly silent. Employees were anguished by having to kill sickened animals. The family business, started in …
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An outbreak of avian flu is forcing farmers to cull their flocks and leading to concerns about higher food prices. The outbreak is prompting a new wave of conspiracy theories that the bird flu isn’t real and emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. (May 17)
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From 19th-century anti-Semitic caricatures to disinformation linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Rothschild international banking dynasty has been a favourite target of conspiracy theorists blaming it for the world’s ills. Now an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna seeks to debunk some of …
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IN “THE GREAT GATSBY”, Tom Buchanan, a boorish plutocrat, recounts what he learned from a book called “The Rise of the Coloured Empires”, by a man called “Goddard”. “It’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it,” says Buchanan. “The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be …
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This is the first of several conversations about the mass shooting in Buffalo. This hour, we discuss how people like the 18-year-old alleged gunman become radicalized to believe conspiracy theories like the ‘great replacement theory.’ In his 180-page manifesto, the teen referenced this and other …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 16, 2022 (NEW YORK) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist shot 13 people—10 of them fatally, and almost all of them Black—in a supermarket in a largely Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York on Saturday, a crime which local authorities have said they will prosecute as a …
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