"Do you think there was a kind of desire, to believe in a conspiracy of the liberal elite, all misbehaving in gross ways that ordinary folks could never think about?"
"Certainly, rationality is beleaguered these days. This is one of the last major newspapers in the country not to publish a horoscope,...non-science, nonsense, the elevation of emotion over fact, is on the rise, whether it's the extraordinary faith in homeopathy or the voodoo economics of the neoliberal right or the healing power of crystals. To read here of Tony and Cherie Blair's rebirthing experience in a Mexican mud bath in 2001 is to be torn between contempt and hilarity.
That our leaders for the past 25 years or so have been as cretinous as anyone else who believes there are fairies at the bottom of their garden is not exactly consoling. The powerful are protected from the consequences of their credulity; we are not."
In the first three minutes of [Matt Rife's] stand-up, the Wild ‘N Out star “tested the waters” with a domestic violence joke. The comic narrated a story about being served by a waitress in Baltimore who had a black eye. He jokes about how it was “obvious” what had happened to her. The star also expressed his surprise at the company choosing the woman to be their face despite her battered appearance.
He says that his friend expressed how the company should have the lady work in the kitchen where she would not have to face people. Matt then recalls how he told his friend “Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.”
He backs up his joke saying he’s “Just testing the waters. Seeing if y’all can be fun or not.” “I figure we start the show with domestic violence, the rest of the show should be pretty smooth sailing.” He then segways into talking about women believing in crystals having spiritual energy.
With what seems like a little awe, The New York Post is reporting Eric Adams' friends and advisors sure have some troubling ties. This only reminds me of how sad it is, today, that reporters are no longer old cigar-chomping guys in fedoras who'd seen it all, but these Starbucks-loving babes in the woods who know nothing. Too young to grasp that, when it comes to "associates" - or pretty much anything else - once New York's Mayor said he was into "crystal energy," that was a big, bright neon sign, beaming out to the world that (just like Jim Carrey before him) the man is now so "open-minded" his brains fell out.
Of course, he's got "troubling" associates. So does Oprah. Who do you think brainwashes idiots with nonsense but "troubling" associates? And, not only that, but, TMR is 100% positive - like most everybody else alive today - it happened a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Judge Jeanine to Mayor Eric Adams: 'Roll up your sleeves, start dealing with reality and stop talking' TRANSLATION: Take off the crystal "energy" bracelet and don't tell nobody. TMR must be the only blog amazed at how early NewAge concepts are introduced, as important to a politician's success, but then are abandoned, once everything goes to shit. Which they inevitably will, if their brains are so wooly that crystals creating "energy" makes sense.
They did the same with Obama: bringing out Oprah and everybody calling him a light bringer. He even went to Iowa's Maharishi school and gave a speech when was campaigning for president. But how often do you see or hear him being forced to talk about NewAge?
By the way, Glen Loury let Bill Maher stupidly claim blacks never question gang violence.
Stupidly, because it's blacks who live with gang violence, so of course it's discussed. Maybe, just not with people like Bill Maher and Glenn Loury.
The truth is, blacks talk about gangs all the time, but these guys just don't like the answers.
Cool - about 9 months ago someone on Redditgot the word out about TED - finally:
The TED name is being dragged through the mud in Valencia, Spain, where a TEDx-approved event is promoting pseudoscientific stuff like (and I quote): crystal therapy, Egyptian psychoaromatherapy, healing through the Earth, homeopathy and even "basic mind control".
I'm not really sure how this event got approved by the TED headquarters, but almost every respected scientific journalist in Spain is outraged by it.
Some of the speakers (Google-translated for non-Spanish speakers).
Amma - Mahatma (Great Soul) of Hugs, Lots of Politicians go to Her to Receive Her Blessings.
José Rius - Reiki Master, Master Reconnection, Basic Mind Control, Zen and Crystal Theraphy Specialist.
Aura Küpper - Energetic Healing through Earth, Rebirthing Therapy, Angelic Reiki and author of a book called "Doctors from Heaven".
Adoracion Ferreres - Master in Clinical Psychology and Natural Therapies. Technical Expert in Bio-Energetic and Holistic, Egyptian Psycho-Aromatherapy and Transpersonal Homeotherapy.
The whole event is "women-oriented" and marketed as a female empowerment gig, which to me adds insult to the injury, as if women were incapable to distinguish true science from utter superstitious, anti-scientific bullshit.
Seeing the TED name associated with this freak show in a country where science and education have already been cornered and budget-cut by its own government is extremely sad. TED should react and examine its own standards in order to avoid being ashamed by these hordes of rain-makers and mystic scam artists in the future.
Ask and you will receive - today I found this hysterical screed from Natural News' freakazoid ringleader, Mike Adams:
Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012.
In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes."
The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.
And, sure enough, here's the letter from TED, and a list of some of the banned topics - all of which are TMR favorites:
"Healing," including reiki, energy fields, alternative health and placebos, crystals, pyramid power
"Free energy" and perpetual motion machines, alchemy, time travel
The neuroscience of [fill in the blank] — not saying this will all be non-legitimate, but that it’s a field where a lot of goofballs are right now
The fusion of science and spirituality. Be especially careful of anyone trying to prove the validity of their religious beliefs and practices by using science.
That wording, alone, says this was a major "win" for common sense. And that means it was a good day. After all these years, a finger's been put in the dyke, somewhere where it matters:
Amongst the real barbarians - those who've encouraged it and/or let the nonsense go on.
So yeah, right now, you guys can't see me but - whether I need money or not - I'm smiling,...
James Randi is up to his old tricks again - except, this time, the government's exposed:
James Randi launched a bold challenge Saturday that aims to debunk so-called homeopathic drugs. The fraud-busting magician even offered $1 million to any manufacturer who could prove they work as directed.
Finding science and medicine experts to defend homeopathy isn't easy. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine offers a primer complete with an explanation of homeopathy regulation, the status of research and more.
That reference to The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is significant, because they're the federal government.
Both of these descriptions make sense to us, since - along with a lot of what some consider mainstream in our NewAge-emersed society - they go hand-in-hand with the occult:
The Occult Bookstore has been offering guidance and books in alternative approaches to spirituality and self-healing since 1917, according to the store's website. It stocks titles on topics such as homeopathy, Zen Buddhism and old Hermetic magic. Though the store carries an array of used books, largely collected from old libraries, it specializes in rare, hand-bound books, such as Aleister Crowley's "The Book of Lies," which can cost up to $2,000. Crystals, amulets and other accessories are sold to complement specific spiritualities, and the store hosts readings, signings and classes that range from spiritual jewelry making to fire eating.
Let's see if Randi's offer gets to the bottom of a question we've been asking for years:
Why the American government "offers a primer" on a quack cure "scam", labeled as "witchcraft", that's sold by purveyors of "the occult"?
I dub myself a life coach. Now accepting clients. For $$$. I will... coach you. About your life.
My life coaching package comes with two options:
Option 1: I mirror everything you say back to you. You know, the whole, "And how is that working for you?" "How does that make you feel?" "I hear you saying [x]. Is that what you're telling me?" type stuff.
Option 2: I tell you what to do. You tell me what's going on and what you want, I tell you what to do. It might work, it might not, but there it is.
Qualifications: I have titled myself "life coach." I can make a face that resembles patronizing concern. I have an Enya CD from high school somewhere that I can dig up and play for you while you are in the waiting room. I own a prism for science purposes, but I can put it in the middle of the coffee table, and we can call it a "crystal" and pretend it has powers.
Email me, and I will coach your life. Act fast, and I will send you a product of my choosing from the As Seen on TV shelf at Walmart.
Like we said, Freeman's pretty fucking smart, so - if you're a NewAger with some "issues" - you just might want to consider looking her up,...seriously,...she can't do any worse than what you're doing now!
A small French farming village is facing an influx of UFO watchers and assorted New Age idiots who believe aliens are hiding underneath a nearby mountain, waiting for the 2012 Apocalypse. The mayor wants the army to be on call.
The tiny farming village of Bugarach, in southwestern France, is home to 189 people. But lately it has been overrun with crystal-toting tourists looking for aliens, and many locals aren't so happy. Most of the visitors believe that when the Apocalypse comes in December 2012 the mountain, Pic de Bugarach — which is currently an "alien garage" — will be spared the fiery, miserable fate of the rest of the earth. The increase in visitors started about 10 years ago, when a local man wrote to a UFO review saying the mountain was home to aliens and their spacecraft, which he had personally seen and heard. Now, UFO experts are buying up property and ruining the town by lying around meditating and leaving statues of virgins and other weird shit on the mountain.
The Telegraph spoke with the mayor of Bugarach, Jean-Pierre Delord, who said, "This is no laughing matter. If tomorrow 10,000 people turn up, as a village of 200 people we will not be able to cope. I have informed the regional authorities of our concerns and want the army to be at hand if necessary come December 2012." Delord told the paper that a recent spike in visitors is due to UFO and 2012 websites telling people to go to Bugarach if they want to survive the End Times. "Many come and pray on the mountainside. I've even seen one man doing some ritual totally nude up there."
Oh god. That poor town.
It is a tragedy - and specifically a shame of the Western World - that no one brings these loony believers to their senses and, at the very least, impresses upon them what jackasses they've been led to become. Nobody had ever try to impress on us how badly they want to "save the planet" or the poor (who can at least think straight) when they're doing nothing to save these lame brains:
When it comes to people needing "help", these crazies are the low-hanging fruit.
"The New Agers took it up. The crystals and homeopathy crowd. Oh, I don't really mind. People can believe what they want, no problem, unless it hurts someone else."
-- James Lovelock, inventor of the "Gaia Theory" - anticipating something violent going down in environmentalism - because of the NewAge belief system.
Simon Jester seems to have gotten the point of "No Pressure", that violent 10:10 Group video, loud and clear:
"So the message here is that if you don’t agree with the Religion of the Environmentalists and the Holy Church of Global Warming, then you’ll be killed?"
Yes, Simon, that's it. But who is it, exactly, that wants to kill you?
Many would say merely "environmentalists" but that doesn't acknowledge that environmentalism, like "alternative" medicine, is an obsession of NewAgers.
Those who follow politics understand what's going on, but are reluctant to say it outright, for fear it makes them look like conspiracy theory fruitcakes-by-association. So, instead, they write long-winded articles on science, or dangerous environmentalists, while only including the Greek goddess of the earth - "Gaia" - in the titles.
Not much on who's worshipping her.
Look at that 10:10 Group video - who does it star? Why, there's Gillian Anderson of The X-Files, once again playing a skeptic.
She's not a skeptic in real life, though, as Bill Whittle pointed out way back in 2003:
"Dana Scully is a brilliant, courageous, skeptical physician who is handy with an automatic; Gillian Anderson is deep into crystals and has trouble with her shoelaces."
"Deep into crystals" = NewAge. So here we have a NewAger, who makes her living pretending to be a critical thinker, participating in a video about the NewAge desire to kill off critical thinkers.
Could NewAgers - when you include their other numerous (and we mean numerous) obsessions with nonsense - be more clear?
It is, if you follow NewAge - and, thus, NewAgers and environmentalism - and all the trouble (i.e. deaths) they've caused.
"ECO-FASCISM JUMPS THE SHARK: 'With No Pressure, the environmental movement has revealed the snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness.' It always ends up as mass murder, real or fantasized, with these people. That’s what they do. Treat them with all the respect they deserve."
Those are very nice words, but, if everybody will now move to defining who "these people" with the "sick, twisted minds" pushing "fascism" actually are - when it's obvious it's the NewAgers amongst us - we think America will finally start making some headway toward defeating them, once and for all.
