James Tracy AMA
151 2015-07-16 by JamesTracy
I'm James Tracy of MemoryHoleBlog.com . I have been invited by reddit administrators to be here this evening for a "Ask Me Anything" session, so please feel free to do so. I cannot profess to be able to respond to every question, but will do my best to answer as many as possible if I can provide accurate and helpful information.
219 comments
61 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Dr. Tracy,
Many of us know that the 2012 Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" includes a scene with a map which references Sandy Hook (with the relative location of Sandy Hook Elementary School circled in red pen).
http://zazenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/23045gotham-map.jpg
Edit: Here is a short video showing an overlay with Sandy Hook Elementary School in google earth.
This "coincidence" is all the more extreme when you consider the 2011 movie "Dream House" also has a prop which references Sandy Hook.
http://illuminatiwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IlluminatiWatcherDotCom-Dream-House-Sandy-Hook1.jpg
This is a screenshot of one of the film's characters' business card, a Dr. Greeley, who works in Sandy Hook, CT with the same zip code as the Elementary school (CT 06482). Even more disturbing is the fact that GREELEY is a town in Colorado which saw one of the worst school disasters in US history in 1961 - an incident in which 20 children were killed (the same number as Sandy Hook) on 14 December (same date as Sandy Hook).
So my question assumes the premise that these film props are signposts to a contrived, pre-planned school shooting event that was to take place in December 14, 2012 in Sandy Hook. However, they are not specific enough to constitute a warning, so what might the purpose of these messages be?
EDIT: In terms of "signposts", I could have included the media references to the "Sandy Hook hoax" in which a boat was reported lost with 20 people in the water off the coast of New Jersey in June 2012.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/sandy_hook_boat_explosion_hoax.html
EDIT 2: Talking about "signposts", there is a very interesting geographic signpost which I discovered in Google Earth, which clearly suggests that Sandy Hook was planned many years in advance by an element of the US elite (freemasons and politicians). I have posted the details here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3e3sqm/the_true_perpetrators_of_sandy_hook_left_a/
11 George_Tenet 2015-07-16
Great question
-18 papipapichulo 2015-07-16
Not really
11 Fekkii 2015-07-16
Might be a little far-fetched, but maybe subliminal messaging to make the attacks more impactful? I mean if some random guy died, you wouldn't care that much. But if you saw that guy somewhere else before, you automatically "connect" to that person and thus care more about it
14 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Yes indeed, this is certainly one of the key reasons, in my view. I was hoping James Tracy would say something on these lines, but sadly my question wasn't answered.
The subliminal effect of being pre-exposed to the name "Sandy Hook" helps anchor it in the subconscious - like a meme. Then when the actual Sandy Hook incident hits the news, it already feels "real" and significant because it is linking with something that has been stored away in your subconscious.
If you recall, there was a destructive meteorological event on the East Coast in (just before Sandy Hook in 2012) called "Hurricane Sandy". This is perhaps more likely a coincidence, but at this point I don't rule anything out.
The Sandy Hook boat hoax is slightly different, because I believe this was partly organised to get the the search term "Sandy Hook hoax" plenty of hits in google, to sidetrack anybody looking for evidence that the school shooting was a hoax.
6 johnny_c_note 2015-07-16
Great breakdown. I think you are right on the money with your analysis. One thing to consider is that a lot of this stuff could simply be red herrings thrown out there to confuse and sidetrack people. Think of the amount of time and energy wasted trying to figure all of this stuff out. In the end, it doesn't matter why it was put into the movie or by whom because in the end it has no direct connection to the event. It distracts valuable energy from what's important, which is the actual crime itself. There are too many people in this "movement" who are far too obsessed with these things. It is counterproductive and does nothing to help the situation. Many of the people who obsess over these things are into this movement more as a hobby than anything else. It's like a mystery-themed video game or something to them. They gather and endlessly ponder all of these useless tidbits of info that seem to connect with an event but which accomplish absolutely nothing.
6 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
My contention is that Sandy Hook was a simulated event planned many years in advance. These film pointers are evidence of prior knowledge, so it does matter who put these props in those movies, because the individuals responsible should be investigated (assuming they are still alive).
6 platinum_peter 2015-07-16
There are also various 9/11 references in movies throughout the 90's.
I agree, something is fuckey.
1 not---a---bot 2015-07-16
In addition to SH, the plane crash scene in TDKR had some uncanny resemblances to a real plane crash that happened year later. Here's the 4chan thread linking the evidence. http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/938/183/754.jpg
0 STARVE_THE_BEAST 2015-07-16
The fire rises!
1 Dark_Mirrors 2015-07-16
Unraveling the truth in any way is helpful. I say let them have fun while they are doing it. Others will focus on other aspects.
1 Dabee625 2015-07-16
You do realize there are many many many places in New York City (on which Gotham is based) named Sandy Hook? Your ridiculous question based on some YouTube video makes it difficult to take anything in this thread seriously, considering it's at the very top. (Not that anything in this thread necessarily deserves to be taken seriously.)
3 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
I guess you're one of those nutjob coincidence theorists?
So explain the Dream House business card which is a much more elaborate connection to Sandy Hook. And the Sandy Hook boat hoax.
3 lono12 2015-07-16
I wonder if its the same person working on all these movies. There must be a way to find out.
19 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Scott Getzinger was the Master of Props for "The Dark Knight Rises". He was killed in a car crash shortly before the film premiered.
http://www.freedombrief.com/the-dark-knight-rises-prop-master-dies-in-car-accident-buried-in-newtown-connecticut/
14 lono12 2015-07-16
Well isn't that something. Buried in Newton, Conneticut.
10 [deleted] 2015-07-16
I went to school in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Kids would always talk about some kids' parents being witches and Satan worshipers. For what it's worth.
8 [deleted] 2015-07-16
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3 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Wat
1 Watawkichaw 2015-07-16
This is where a documentary happens...
1 1337Gandalf 2015-07-16
that's just fucking forewarning
0 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Perhaps Getzinger's map was not "authorised". The elite are lovely, but they don't tolerate whistleblowers, and those who squeal are punished severely - as as lesson to others who might be thinking of doing the same.
0 1337Gandalf 2015-07-16
But I mean there HAS to be a way to infiltrate these groups, but how?
0 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Sadly not. For most it's a birthright, otherwise it's very much a case of "don't call us, we'll call you".
2 hazehk 2015-07-16
Why some stupid question about movies the most upvoted? Maybe to discredit more easily this thread?
5 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
It's not "a question about movies" - it's evidence of foreknowledge of the events of Sandy Hook.
It would not be possible to know about Sandy Hook in advance UNLESS it was a planned, manufactured event - ie NOT a random killing spree by a disturbed teenager, as the media would have you believe.
6 hazehk 2015-07-16
I'm not saying sandy hook wasn't a false flag. I'm saying that all this bullshit about movies predicting shit can be easily thrown aside by any statistician, even if sandy hook was NOT a false flag, there would STILL be movies pointing to it. why? because coincidences do exist when you're talking about thousands and thousands of movies being published about the most known and talked about country in the world.
There is literally THOUSANDS times stronger evidence than this sort of bullshit, and people attaching importance to this sort of shite instead of real provable evidence simply helps to discredit conspiracy theorists as those stupid kids in south park who see numbers everywhere.
4 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
You should be thinking more in terms of balance of probabilities - and the Sandy Hook references in those movies were very specific - the circle on the map clearly marking the location of the school, and the zip code of the school (with a reference on the same prop to another traumatic event which occurred on 14th December where 20 children died).
Analysis of a false-flag event can broken down into three separate categories.
Of these, a single provable incident of prior knowledge completely destroys the official narrative (of a crazed teenager acting alone) more effectively than the other categories. Since the authorities had total control of the crime scene (SHES), it is much harder to contradict their account with firm evidence. As for cover-ups - clearly there was one at Sandy Hook but there are different reasons for cover-ups, and they don't prove a false flag.
I am not saying that these film references, or the Sandy Hook boat hoax etc are proof on their own, but collectively they strongly suggest that Sandy Hook was an event planned for a long time, and ratified at the highest levels of the US establishment.
6 ArousedCthulhu 2015-07-16
That map bears no resemblance to the actual Sandy hook, ct.
3 RandyRandle 2015-07-16
But it's really not evidence of much. It just shows a prop master, who came from a certain area (and was buried there) used locations he was familiar with in creating props. As one who has worked in video and stage, that is really, really common.
3 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
The map in TDKR specifically highlights the location of Sandy Hook Elementary School, if you superimpose a real map over the prop, with the Interstate 84 as your point of reference.
The film Dream House had a different prop master, suggesting that the prop references to Sandy Hook may be attributable to an individual higher up the food chain.
0 RandyRandle 2015-07-16
I can't say anything about Dream House; I've never even heard of it. But a map in TDKR only means he circled a place he knew. There are such things as coincidences, and had he circled virtually any other place in the country no one would be discussing this now.
2 xxCRM114xx 2015-07-16
http://subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.com/2013/01/tdkr.html
2 euleausberlin 2015-07-16
Dark Knight map: http://batmangothamcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Gotham-map-Dark-Knight.jpg
Dark Knight Rises map: http://batmangothamcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Gotham-map-Dark-Knight-Rises.jpg
Pretty weird to change the established names of most areas.
edit: Huge (23MB!!!) scan of the Sandy Hook map: http://thebatmanuniverse.net/image/Movie/News/01-Live%20Action/11-The%20Dark%20Knight%20Rises/Viral%20Marketing/03-Event%203/Map%202.jpg
2 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Here is short video with an overlay of the red highlighted zone in "Sandy Hook" in The Dark Knight Rises and an image of Sandy Hook Elementary School from google earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOR67DOM-ZQ
1 flashnewsnetwork 2015-07-16
I was unaware of the 2011 movie Dream House... but was very aware of the Sandy Hook missing boat explosion (I have the recorded may-day calls) as well as the Batman movie reference. I would certainly like to hear Dr. Tracy's take on these items.
1 Spencerfla 2015-07-16
THE FIRE RISES
0 Dabee625 2015-07-16
Holy crap is this guy serious?
0 macsenscam 2015-07-16
Sounds like it's a coincidence most likely. In order to sneak a map into the prop departments of these movies you would need more conspirators and that just makes it riskier. Still it is creepy how connections in major blockbusters keep popping-up to mass shootings. Could it be a sort of energetic resonance going backwards through time or something?
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1 hazehk 2015-07-16
sadly some people on this sub seem to be easily taken in by all this incredibly easily dismissible shit.
35 David_Kleinfeld 2015-07-16
Several doctors have been murdered or have come up missing within the last few weeks.
Most, if not all of them had ties to, or practiced alternative medicine. Some were believed to be anti-vaccination.
Do you think this is a strange coincidence, or is there a story here that the main stream media refuses to report?
edit:
including articles for rerefence.
Dr. Teresa Sievers, practiced holistic medicine, murdered with hammer
Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, claimed vaccines lead to autism, "self-inflicted wounds to the chest"
Dr. Lisa Riley, holistic medicine, gunshot wound to the head
Dr. Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, holistic medicine, "missing"
There are several more including 3 people in Mexico that practiced an alternative to chemotherapy.
Here is a timeline
5 [deleted] 2015-07-16
I'd be very interested seeing sources for this. I've heard of the one doctor who ended up in a river, who supposedly was an anti-vaxer, but no others.
9 TeslasMuse 2015-07-16
http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2015/07/5th-doctor-found-dead-in-florida-making-5-dead-and-5-more-missing-2492824.html
10 CredAndBercuses 2015-07-16
source (questionable)
10 TeslasMuse 2015-07-16
i went on a few news posts and even emailed a reporter about all of the dead and missing doctors and their connection, i hope some good people can get the story out before it gets shut down
7 David_Kleinfeld 2015-07-16
you got it. i'll update my comment
30 LetsHackReality 2015-07-16
Excellent work on the Aurora theater shooting. (example for those who missed it) It's a shame to see that young man, James Holmes, being railroaded. Have you made the connection between Alex Milano and "DJ" from Bowling for Columbine?
Witness Corbin Dates told Hardball with Chris Matthews that there was a second shooter, a man with a goatee (Holmes did not have a goatee), who was lingering near the emergency exit.
A "man with a goatee". A goatee. Like Alex Milano, a noted gun-control advocate, who just happened to be present at the shooting and coincidentally interviewed on local news:
Alex Milano appeared in the gun control advocacy movie, Bowling for Columbine, as "DJ", although he's been scrubbed from the IMDB credits for some reason.
Screenshots/portraits:
"DJ" from Bowling for Columbine
Alex Milano from the Aurora Massacre interview
Side by side comparison:
13 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
My question about all this, and I'm serious, is if these shootings were staged in order for the gov't to push gun control, why do we not see more gun control? Has there not been enough mass shootings yet to justify a gun grab or even stricter qualifications for purchases?
4 Hiihtopipo 2015-07-16
Maybe they didn't get the scared reaction they hoped for. Easier for them if the people just disarm themselves.
11 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Yep. Its not like a band-aid - you can't just say "Gun Control" really fast and take erryone's guns in the Take Everybody's Guns Act of 2020. Their would be crazy resistance.
But slowly and constantly plant the idea that assault rifles are bad (but pay no attention to the tanks your local SWAT has - that's for their protection), and you'll get what you want.
Eventually.
3 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Well put, Jim. I think it will be a long term plan--can't believe Holder and his brainwash plan. But TPTB want resistance, I think, and I expect Jade Helm to present some FF's meant to trick militias into conflict.
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
I'm surprised the whole Oathkeeper's outfit hasn't been hrard from in awhile, now that I think about it.
Hmm...
You're right though - eventually you have to use the equipment or you jave to give it to a lower level of government to pass off the maintence.
But when the locals have MRAPs...
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Shirkey Principal: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
Heck. Even the fraudulent "War on Terror" is a great example of this.
Awesome AMA the other night!
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Still going through it but I thought it was solid.
2 chimnado 2015-07-16
Hahaha, such a great comment.
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Gun sales go up, up up after these types of events.
2 platinum_peter 2015-07-16
The shootings will continue until the general public begs for gun control.
Change doesn't happen over night. They won't ram it down our throats.
The will continue to turn up the heat until we ask to be protected.
1 mchandleraz 2015-07-16
Gun ownership is actually on the decline, unless that's changed drastically in the last 5 years. Last time I read up on it, only about 35% of US citizens own guns. In the 70s, it was in the 50% area. I think that the number of guns has increased because the 35% of people that own guns are building their "collections", but the number of people that own a gun isn't very high. Especially when you consider that the biggest cities, therefore the highest concentration of population, have all voluntarily surrendered their guns. It's either illegal or very expensive/impractical to have a handgun for self-defense in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City, and Baltimore.
1 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
That's ridiculous, a Glock costs $500 no matter where you are.
2 platinum_peter 2015-07-16
Yes, the prices of guns are the same.
The prices of licensing, etc. can be high in areas with strict control.
1 mchandleraz 2015-07-16
It costs about $650 to get a concealed carry permit in Chicago, which means the people that are most in need (law-abiding citizens living in high-crime areas) are the least likely to be able to afford a handgun. $1000+ is a LOT of money for someone who only makes $35,000 a year.
1 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
You are misinformed. The cost of a permit for the state of Illinois is $150. CCL training classes vary from cost from $50 - $300 depending on how fancy you want to get.
1 mchandleraz 2015-07-16
I was basing that number on a Washington Times article and what I remembered when Illinois first passed their CCW law, and the cost was in the realm of $650 at that time. Probably due to no competition for training classes.
$300 is still a lot of money for some people, and nothing you've said has any bearing on the fact that many of the biggest cities in the USA make it prohibitively expensive or impractical to carry a handgun for self-defense.
1 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
Owning/carrying a gun is a privilege, not a guarantee. If you cant afford a gun or the training required to carry one, you shouldnt have one. You inflated the price of CCL training in Chicago by over 200%, and I addressed that.
1 mchandleraz 2015-07-16
Actually, it's a right. And that right is protected by the United States Constitution.
I agree that nobody without proper training should be carrying, or handling, firearms. But the state doesn't need to make it prohibitively expensive.
No, I used outdated information. At one point, less than 2 years ago, that number was correct. I haven't kept up on the costs of training to obtain a CCW in a state I've never even been to. Sorry. The point that laws have made it prohibitively expensive to carry a handgun still stands.
1 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
$150 is "prohibitively" expensive? Some of that money goes to paying the trainers a living wage. Do you think the gov't should absorb that cost and pass it on to tax payers? What price would you think is appropriate, $20?
1 TequilaJon 2015-07-16
http://www.illinoisconcealedcarryllc.com/concealed-carry-training.php#illinois
1 eye_ree 2015-07-16
do you have a source on large cities voluntarily surrendering guns?
2 platinum_peter 2015-07-16
Here's one I found after 3 seconds of Google searching.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-gun-turn-in-yields-5500-firearms/
1 mchandleraz 2015-07-16
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=voluntary%20surrender%20gun
11 Balthanos 2015-07-16
His brows are manicured in the aurora interview. Funny.
6 AnalArdvark 2015-07-16
You realize the Aurora and Bowling for Columbine were ten years apart right? DJ would look significantly older not to mention Alex has acne and looks to be in his twenties. They just look alike.
1 chimnado 2015-07-16
Dude, that is the same person. Some people age really well. Look at Keanu Reeves or Jennifer Aniston.
-2 LetsHackReality 2015-07-16
Looks to me like he blew through a million bucks in partying; not great for the skin. Note the manicured eyebrows -- dude knew he would be on camera. Even has damn near the same black backwards hat for God's sake. It's an immature look he hasn't bothered to update since then.
And I'm 44yo, get mistaken for upper 20s all the time; could easily pass for 34. (I need a fake ID that says I'm 10 years younger heh...)
3 Fart_McFart_Fart 2015-07-16
Just listening to that interview made me remember how much I fucking hate Michael Moore.
5 LetsHackReality 2015-07-16
It all makes sense now, eh?
Also seems like the dialog was sped up -- everybody is talking really fast. Maybe I'm just from the south..
4 Fart_McFart_Fart 2015-07-16
No, I noticed that too. It seemed like MM was spitting out questions like he had just taken a giant hit of meth.
-4 ThompsonCooper 2015-07-16
It's absolutely unbelievable to me that you think those two people are the same. Why are you lying?
7 LetsHackReality 2015-07-16
Ignore him. We get a lot of PR shills here trying to play their dumb mind-control games. Might even get a brigade of em.
(Start bad-mouthing GMOs or RoundUp and see what happens..)
1 BlackGayJewNazi 2015-07-16
I mean, they look the same?
0 varys 2015-07-16
Why are you LYING?!?!?!111!!
25 [deleted] 2015-07-16
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34 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
If one looks at the features of JFK Jr.'s demise it's difficult not to be suspicious, because he was an experienced pilot who seemed poised to handle any such situation. The authorities were unusually slow to embark on rescue procedures once it became apparent that the plane went down. In addition, Jr. would be a politically viable and potentially dangerous figure as long as he remained alive. He was becoming salient through his journalistic endeavors as well. It's important to keep in mind that a majority of the US public still thinks there was a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination. The population abroad is even more skeptical as a whole.
I don't have any insights on Keating specifically. However, the OKCB is a key event in the invisible government's war of terror against the public. Very much worthy of study, and far less complex than 9/11.
Certain media and literature more broadly have a greater chance to escape the censorial practices of what Hans Enzensberger called "the consciousness industry." This "industry" or process is part economic, part political, and part ideological. A good deal of the so-called "alternative media" are also part of this industry.
16 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
Do you know anything about the allegations that George W. Bush was somehow involved with the death of JFK Jr.?
What do you think about RFK Jr. and his stand against Big Pharma and the vaccine industry?
6 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I've not delved in to the JFK Jr. death to provide much more than what I've suggested above.
RFK Jr.'s stance on vaccination is admirable. He's dancing with the devil every time he opens his mouth on any issue, and that's something I'm sure he's acutely aware of. The only way he could become a seriously viable political force would be if America defeated its own severe case of psychological denial and historical amnesia, and recognize that his father and uncle were assassinated by coordinated efforts of US intelligence and military forces. They were America's last hope against what authors David Wise and Thomas Ross termed "the invisible government" in their 1964 book of the same name.
2 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
Great answer, thank you!
10 Balthanos 2015-07-16
I have definitely noticed that the big boys are taking advantage of "alternative media" similar to the big brewing companies taking advantage of the microbrew market.
8 Ambiguously_Ironic 2015-07-16
Somebody needs to tell them that adding alcohol and four scoops of hops does not make the beer better or equivalent to a microbrew.
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
And jack up the price $4.00/6 compared to their NFL watered down swill version.
And to think I used to have contests with my buddied to drink 30 in 24 hours every summer.
And now I'm thinking if I was the victim if a viral marketing campaign to the college scene to increase sales.
O.o
2 iFeelLikeDying808 2015-07-16
I shall embark on this endeavor before this summers pass.
0 Balthanos 2015-07-16
But but IPA!!! ugh.
5 smokefilled 2015-07-16
If JFK jr was in fact murdered then they killed 3 generations of jfk'a
4 smokefilled 2015-07-16
'S
4 gypsydrifter 2015-07-16
Actually as a professional pilot I'm entirely not surprised about JFK Jr's death. To be perfectly honest when you add hubris to inexperience (and he was certainly inexperienced - the man didn't even have an instrument rating and he was flying around at night over water!) and you get loss of control accidents like this a lot.
The accident is a textbook case.
3 ConspiracyCorners 2015-07-16
Wow buddy you've been flying so high for 15 years you haven't looked at this thing; the rescue anomalies scream cover-up, but all of it is so suspicious with the clearly shoddy investigation I wouldn't rule out a possibly missing flight instructor having fallen off the radar with the others the "investigators" say were on board. I think I saw you piloting that train around the zoo.
12 smokinbluebear 2015-07-16
welcome...any thoughts on Stanley Kubrick or the Apollo moon landings?
17 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I haven't done any research on this personally. I don't think it's as bizarre as it seems. Note that in the early 1940s the Manhattan Project utilized 43,000 people in 37 facilities across 19 states in complete silence. The Apollo projects transpired thirty years later.
Jim Fetzer has recently co-edited a volume, And I Suppose We Didn't Go to the Moon Either? which is worth reading. I recently discussed the volume with Dr. Fetzer for my weekly program/podcast, Real Politik, accessible at MHB.
10 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Good plug, fellow Jim.
You are doing well here. I am pleasantly surprised.
-4 George_Tenet 2015-07-16
How many shills u find in here?
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Not enough.
-8 George_Tenet 2015-07-16
Do u like me
1 Radium_Coyote 2015-07-16
To be fair, it wasn't in complete silence. There was at least one Ruskie spy spilling our toppest secrets. Whether he did it for love or money, ultimately doesn't matter. What matters is, the commies got "The Bomb", and they got it from us.
-3 That_Guy381 2015-07-16
So... do you think the moon landings were a hoax or not? I didn't hear a definite answer in that.
11 jafbm 2015-07-16
Aliens? Do they walk among us? Have they been here all along (as some would have us believe)? If so, what do they want?
10 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Well, that's interesting.
14 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
*/r/conspiracy moderators
3 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-07-16
At the same time as the big one with spez? That's unfortunate timing at the least.
4 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
It's my understanding that the date was picked well before the spez AMA was announced.
2 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-07-16
Fair enough, I'm guessing a lot of people are over there though.
7 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
The way I see it, the usual suspects are too busy with that debacle to disrupt the AMA here.
I'm content to let this fly slightly under the radar so legitimate questions aren't drowned in fluff (great questions so far too!).
1 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-07-16
Good point, and yes, good questions too.
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
I know man - juat having fun.
7 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
juat you tryin to say
3 [deleted] 2015-07-16
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3 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Just a weird sense of humor. I'll be around ;)
0 [deleted] 2015-07-16
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8 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Believe it or not, I'm simply not as familiar with reddit as I probably should be. I'm happy when reddit members link articles from MHB, because I enjoy seeing seeing readers come to the site, and partake in discussion if they wish.
This is the kind of paranoia that I find often plagues conspiracy-related forums.
3 ShakesJr 2015-07-16
You're telling me. I feel like I'm losing my mind half the time. Takes a bit for things to sorta 'stabilize' if I tread on this sub too long.
But thank you for doing the time to do this AMA. I must admit, I'm not too familiar with your work but I've been reading up a little earlier today. Definitely interested. Will try and come up with a halfway decent question
3 Bovolt 2015-07-16
On the nose.
-1 ShakesJr 2015-07-16
Sure nose his audience, amirite?
-1 wrybill 2015-07-16
That's ignorant.
3 JUSTIN_HERGINA 2015-07-16
Many people are paranoid because someone impersonating Richard Gage did an AMA on here, and successfully made a complete fool out of the /r/conspiracy moderators that were involved in setting it up. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/2okqh4/remember_the_time_fake_richard_gage_?
2 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
No worries, regular reddit users get confused by this all the time.
Reddit's employees are called admins (they are paid).
Individual subreddits are run by "moderators" (they are unpaid). Anyone can start a new subreddit and become its moderator.
You were invited by the /r/conspiracy moderators (and some members of the community) to host this AMA.
10 jafbm 2015-07-16
He means /r/conspiracy mods, not Reddit Admins. There's a huge difference.
8 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
Or is there...?
10 DwarvenPirate 2015-07-16
What do you think of the idea that the basic conspiracy is satanic in nature, as satanism is understood by christianity?
25 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
In a spiritual sense utilizing religious terminology this perspective has merit. God, an all-knowing force, whatever one wishes to deem "it," is an open book and has no secrets. Matthew 7:7 states, Seek and ye shall find. The occult, mind control and propaganda require the perversion of truth and information constraints toward certain social and political ends.
-6 wrybill 2015-07-16
Please quote what you're quoting.
1 IanPhlegming 2015-07-16
yeah, i'd echo this one.
10 Yoaks 2015-07-16
Thanks for doing the AMA
Are you aware of the connection between SSRI antidepressant drugs and mass murders?
http://ssristories.wpengine.com/old/index1.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26e5PqrCePk
Studies have already nonchalantly confirmed "anti"depresant drugs numb all emotions including good ones like love and empathy. And that they've been shown to be able to make even health non-depressed people suicidal. Yet it seems not many talk about why that's a problem. Is it any wonder why people exposed to these drugs are so depressed?
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/833484
8 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Thank you.
Yes, although there are too few voices raising concern over antidepressants and similar substances. "Depression" itself is construct of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry that was devised in the 1980s as the necessary precursor to the introduction of antidepressants as the new series of "blockbuster" drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry took their show on the road to Japan in the late 1990s early 2000s, where through a massive PR-advertising blitz they introduced the notion of "depression" as "the soul catching a cold," to sell an entire generation of Japanese on SSRIs.
Further many antidepressants and antipsychotics are fluorinated.
http://www.slweb.org/ftrcfluorinatedpharm_antid.html
3 BlackGayJewNazi 2015-07-16
While I agree that pharmaceutical companies definitely push way too hard to sell their drugs to people that don't need them, I will say that depression is real. Just like schizophrenia, just like OCD.
-1 ChipyGlitchy 2015-07-16
You sound like a fucking idiot. All disrespect meant.
Depression isn't real? Tell that to all the suicides throughout history or different languages and eras way of describing it.
Just because you don't have to suffer with it daily doesn't make it any less real.
-2 CredAndBercuses 2015-07-16
WELP, time to go cold turkey on 2 SSRIs at once. Should be fun.
edit: maybe not
11 A932312 2015-07-16
don't be stupid, you will go off the deep end if you do that. if your going to quit them gradually lower the intake until you stop taking them all together.
8 AnalArdvark 2015-07-16
Never go off you meds without your doctors help. This dude doesn't know what he's talking about.
1 trinsic-paridiom 2015-07-16
and doctors dont know what their talking about either since their field of study is based on the pharmaceutical industry. Personally I think all depression can be cured by sunlight, plant life, listening to yourself when something is wrong inside of you, and expressing your depression in other forms like art and movement.
3 AnalArdvark 2015-07-16
Hey man. I have clinical depression. There is no debate. I have it. No weird sedo-science can deny it. I have gone through the fucking wringer in terms of medication, since I was and I sure as fuck know more about how this whole pharma-horseshit works than someone from the outside could possibly know.
2 trinsic-paridiom 2015-07-16
There is always a debate, you have something, but I wouldn't go so far as to label it based on what medical academia is classifying it as. Im sorry you identify with the term clinical depression. I have few people in my life who have similar issues and it really all boils down to being manipulated by this system so they can tell you how to fix your problems instead of working on fixing them yourself. The medical and pharmaceutical industry is a complete sham. People were healing themselves way before modern science came into the picture. You just don't hear about it because of how controlled our society really is.
1 stintcray137 2015-07-16
Not to pry, but have you ever experienced psychedelics?
2 AnalArdvark 2015-07-16
Besides weed, none.
0 SleazySnake 2015-07-16
get off the pharmaceuticals
drug addict
1 AnalArdvark 2015-07-16
Well, I was suicidal until I took medication, so I guess you want me dead basically. Its funny to hear from people who haven't experienced real mental illness. You cannot shake it off. I'm stuck with it for life friend. I almost dropped out of college because I stopped taking anti-depressants for a year. We actually need them. I know it's hard for people who have no clue what it's like be it is true, sorry to burst your bubble buddy. They fucking work. Yes the companies behind them suck but they actually work regardless.
0 SleazySnake 2015-07-16
All I hear are excuses
9 bukvich 2015-07-16
Do you have any recommendations about a single starter book, or starter video, or starter webpage to expose the loyal multitudes to the concept of our government waging psychological warfare upon us citizens which minimize the cognitive dissonance and trauma effects?
15 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I have always been interested in the relationship between politics, public opinion, and social movements. When I was an undergraduate I was fascinated by the political assassinations of the 1960s, in part because my family were such huge Kennedy supporters. (This was a cultural thing as well, as we were Irish Catholics.) Yet what's amazing is that there were no undergrad courses where I could learn about these things--where, for example, I might be assigned Jim Garrison's Heritage of Stone.
Thirty years later that's still the case--almost. I taught a university class on political conspiracies and the media in 2014 where we read sections of that magnificent book. Garrison is not only a talented writer; he would also be a hero if our history and journalism were honest.
I began to peel the first layers off the onion by reading Malcolm X's Autobiography later as an undergrad, then researching his assassination for a term paper. It was clear that he was set up. At the time I didn't understand the complexity of the event and broader politics.
Also, I had a number of very capable professors at San Jose State, where I finished my undergrad while in my late 20s. Among these was George Vasquez, who exposed me to the injustices of cold war US foreign policy in Latin America, the US overthrow of Allende and other popular governments, films like The Panama Deception. These approaches to history are acceptable, yet the dictates of American exceptionalism (and the Warren Commission) are that similar events DO NOT take place in US institutions.
9 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
Thanks for joining us today!
I'm curious, what do you think about the work of Ed Haslam and Judyth Baker?
In a completely different realm, what do you think about Judy Wood?
13 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I find both Haslam and Baker's work to be fascinating. I am presently working with a colleague on an edited volume for TrineDay (the publisher of their works), which we hope will be published in 2016. The book will feature chapters by several notable scholars and journalists addressing the topic of false flags.
At the same time a notable JFK assassination researcher remarked to me that none of the people they've ever interviewed concerning Oswald had ever heard of Baker or recollect her from 1963.
I'm not a physicist so I am not inclined to chime in on Wood or specifically how the World Trade Center was demolished. The topic (and not necessarily Wood) serves as a tremendous source of divisiveness in the 9/11 Truth community which is unfortunate. It's safe to conclude that the event was pulled off with the probable active involvement of the US government and Western intelligence community. Thus far, it's the crime of the century, the basis for the phony "war on terror" (war of terror), and the bread and butter of the military-academic-intelligence-media complex.
8 untumulted 2015-07-16
Dr Tracy,
Excellent article depicting the state of research on climate change behind the headlines. With the Pope and big oil now pushing for a global carbon pricing solution, a global enforcing and carbon-tax funded body seems inevitable.
I try to point out existing solutions, like the thorium plant which India has had on hold due to:
"In October 2013 BARC said that premature deployment of thorium would lead to sub-optimal use of indigenous energy resources",
are readily ignored by climate scientist. To me, their lack of interest in promoting methods of resolving what they describe as a serious thing, suggests they are more focused on securing a carbon tax than pursuing what that tax is supposed to be used for.
What's been your most successful strategy for getting people to look beyond the smoke and mirrors posing as science that is the "consensus"?
Thanks.
4 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Thank you. However, I should point out that the article you've linked to was not authored by me. I attempt to post pieces to MHB that I think are worthwhile, substantive, and haven't received much exposure elsewhere.
Isn't it fitting that the pontiff has come out in support of climate change? After all, "climate change" or the "denial" thereof has all of the characteristics of a religion--initially for secularists, but now for those with religious inclinations. Most professional academics and journalists I come in contact with are sold on the idea, failing to see the huge amount of cash that flows in to and props up the "Green movement" by those interests that will benefit handsomely through carbon credit trading and an abundance of new taxes. It's also about deindustrialization and thus probably depopulation.
One tactic that I think may be helpful in getting the greenies back to earth is to simply stick to and emphasize the basic science. 2 + 2 = 4. Along these lines, CO2 is a trace element in our atmosphere and solar radiation is the principal factor in global warming or cooling.
4 onedialectic 2015-07-16
Secular progressivism is the memetic descendent of Puritan Calvinism. Blasphemy, inquisition, indoctrination, and brainwashing still occur from the perspective of the progressive religion. Therefore, progressive culture is referred to as “the Cathedral”. The Cathedral consists of influential people in politics, journalism, academia and education acting in an uncoordinated manner to advance progressive principles in society; often deceptively.
Also, /r/climateskeptics
1 [deleted] 2015-07-16
I think it's very fitting that the pontiff has come out in favor of climate change, as global warming is truly a religion to many people. How do you persuade people into thinking about it as basic science when they treat it so religiously?
1 eyeluvscotch 2015-07-16
I just posted this on another discussion: http://twoheartspress.com/blog/how-to-respond-if-pope-francis-is-the-false-prophet-2/
8 BaldyJoyful 2015-07-16
Have you ever been tailed by the FBI/CIA/men in black suits before? It may seem like a dumb question but I'm curious as to what lengths of political "physical" scrutiny you've been subjected to
17 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Not that I'm aware of, but as an acquaintance once remarked to me, the ones you can see and keep an eye on are not the ones you have to worry about.
In January 2013 when the media frenzy ensued over the "conspiracy theory professor" I did become somewhat paranoid for several days after receiving a number of unusual comments on the blog, email communications, and phone calls, some of which were simply attributable to cranks.
With others I can't be so sure. I received a call from a seemingly friendly man in early January who expounded at length on his bona fides, then told me that I should be especially careful if I should discover that my residence is broken into, or if I am abruptly pulled over by police. He further remarked that if I have a gun I should know how to use effectively it because the employment of a victim's gun to lend the appearance of a "suicide" is a prevalent murder technique by hit men. Now, in my view it's difficult to determine whether this man's remarks to me were "advice" or a warning. The notes I took on our conversation, along with several other documents, disappeared from my home shortly thereafter.
The harassment by CNN and Cooper seeking to pressure my employer to fire me was right out of an intelligence playbook. I discuss this in the aforementioned Uscinski volume.
10 lono12 2015-07-16
That would have been it for me. Did you set up security cameras or something. There's no way you just let that go
2 ZobmieRules 2015-07-16
Aaaaaaand what happened? If you're telling the truth, you're clearly been compromised. Time for cameras or alternative methods of security? You seems rather calm and nonchalant about that. I'd be pissed.
7 TheCocaineFairy 2015-07-16
Hey James, what do you think about the most recent massacre in Charleston?
6 Expectationslowered 2015-07-16
Hey mr. Tracy! What event in your life propelled you into the conspiracy community? Was it a person even or were tou always that kid who "asked too many questions?"
3 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Please see the response to bukvich above, where I had your question in mind.
3 Expectationslowered 2015-07-16
Thank you very much!
6 axolotl_peyotl 2015-07-16
For those who are interested, here is a list of /r/conspiracy AMAs.
6 [deleted] 2015-07-16
What are your thoughts on Alex Jones and the Infowars programming?
Who are some reliable sources in the alternative media who you deem credible?
11 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I've had disagreements with my colleagues at Project Censored concerning Jones and Infowars. Although they have given Jones awards for reporting "censored" stories years ago during the Bush administration when Jones' politics and anti-war stances were perceived as "correct," they won't consider Infowars stories today, even though many of the Infowars writers produce good work. When PC attacked Jones I disagreed with their premise and wrote the following commentary.
http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/10/03/with-disinfo-wars-project-censored-abandons-principles/
Although I remain on good terms with PC and have students partake in researching under-reported "censored" stories, , I have been essentially disinvited from contributing to their volumes, after having essays in two consecutive Censored yearbooks. I've been Censored by Censored.
In my view, the schism between the two organizations is ideological, revolving around the ascendance of Obama alongside "hot button" issues like immigration, abortion, and gun control, where the left and right are diametrically opposed and see each other through an almost paranoid lens. I can also see the merit of PC's concerns. Jones is a self-proclaimed "Father of 9/11 Truth." Yet his tenacious and prominent stances on such issues, vis-a-vis is often bizarre behavior, alienates many of those "on the left," who might otherwise be allies.
If you want the lowdown on Jones you should probably attempt to find one of his former Infowars employees who's willing to violate the very formidable confidentiality agreement they've signed. My understanding is that Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton have undergone considerable harassment after leaving Infowars.
Effective propaganda today is roughly 95% truth and 5% disinformation. Max Kaiser, for example, has a great many thoughtful observations on the economy, but then throws a curve ball with his promotion of "anthropogenic global warming." Other alternative media outlets have danced around the Sandy Hook event and Boston Marathon bombing, either with a "wait and see" approach, or a general embrace of the official narrative.
I have always been suspicious of Duff. He's not consistent in his remarks, often contradicting himself. There are those who express reservations about Fetzer, but I think Jim is simply an incredibly intelligent individual, and intelligent people are also frequently cantankerous.
5 BowlsSmokington 2015-07-16
Aliens, dimensions, nibiru, ancient advanced civilizations....
Thoughts? Concerns? Anecdotes?
5 RickJamesB____ 2015-07-16
First of all: Thanks for taking the time, James!
Do you think the arts (cinema in particular) are reflecting todays societal problems? And what do you hope to see in the future in terms of topics and methods in which said problems could be portrayed/dealt with.
11 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
You're welcome. Thank you.
I would have to say "No," at least as far as I'm concerned. I work at a university alongside film scholars who will probably disagree. In our building we have an art cinema with several screens that's open seven days a week. (Lots of senior citizen clientele in South Florida.) Each day I walk by the marquee and posters of present and future screenings, and periodically stop to read the films' synopses. There's almost nothing that piques my interest. I find many more worthwhile things on YouTube made by people who are probably amateurs and are simply running on their own curiosity and and creativity.
Further, there's a whole economy involved in movie making where films that really challenge the status quo or global elites will be stymied. In the early 1950s Eustace Mullins sought to have his book on the Federal Reserve published. He was amazed to find that no publisher would touch it. One publisher finally confided that if they did take it on their notes/loans would be called in by the banks and they'd be out of business. Whether we're talking about book publishing, television or film production, with media consolidation that dynamic is even stronger today.
A few filmmakers seeking to develop major productions out of Daniel Estulin's work and the Franklin scandal have experienced similar financial problems, as TrineDay publisher Kris Millegan discussed in an interview with me last December.
5 [deleted] 2015-07-16
Do you currently teach any online courses in which anyone who wanted to attended could?
5 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
There are incentives at my employer to teach online courses that I've never availed myself of. This is mainly a personal preference for teaching in person. Most courses are also restricted to matriculated students who are majors.
BTW, I don't know if I'll ever be allowed to teach a course that overtly addresses political conspiracies again, even though they're now a focus of my research and lived experience. The paperwork for a course I proposed on conspiracies back in 2012 was mysteriously "lost" by the undergraduate curriculum committee after the media frenzy ensued in January 2013 on my Sandy Hook analyses and commentary. Shortly thereafter, in April 2013 after I remarked publicly on how the Boston Marathon bombing looked like a drill, I had classes outright cancelled and rescheduled by my chairperson and dean. These were more-than-subtle acts of retribution after I contested formal disciplinary measures.
Because my tenure and the faculty bargaining agreement I have a formal legal agreement with my academic employer that I will not use the name of my institution or any academic title that may suggest affiliation with that institution. I've never been accused by my employer that what I've publicly stated wasn't true, and have stood by my constitutional right to express my views as I see fit. In the eyes of "developers" and "donors" I had committed blasphemy. Like a for-profit corporation, they are far more concerned with public relations and the preservation of their "brand", than they are with the pursuit of truth, particularly if such a pursuit is "controversial" (i.e. focused on and amplified by corporate media.).
I write about this entire affair in a chapter for a forthcoming book, "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them," edited by Prof. Joe Uscinski.
6 [deleted] 2015-07-16
I'm very sorry to hear this. Please know that your courage is absolutely contagious. Your willingness to call it like you see it, regardless of how politically incorrect or inconvenient it may be, is such an inspiration to me, and no doubt to many others here. You have an incredible mind and perspective on reality Dr. Tracy. I would join an online class you taught in a heartbeat, and I'm positive I'm not alone either.
Thank you so much for your time tonight, and all that you have done so far sir. I feel that if this great nation had more people and teachers like yourself we would not be in the predicament we are all facing now. May God Bless you in all things you do James.
5 Radium_Coyote 2015-07-16
I don't know who you are, but you seem like a decent dude.
4 [deleted] 2015-07-16
Thank you so much for taking the time for this AMA. I am a huge fan of your work. Your research on so many recent "events" has been an inspiration to me personally.
My question to you is, who has had the biggest impact on you personally, and what event in history has the biggest impact on who you are today?
3 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I was under the impression that I responded to this previously, by directing you to the response to bukvich above, but that post seems to have disappeared.
It's a very bit set of questions. I would say that my parents probably had the greatest impact on me. Both were the products of late 19th century era parents. My mother was strongly Catholic but my father abandoned Catholicism in the early 1960s because of the Church's liberalization. Through stories in particular my father was able to relate values from that era that I would otherwise never have any way of understanding. Thus rituals like storytelling, in addition to anti-tyranny/anti-imperialist, pro-(Irish) republican sentiments were deeply imbued. He was also the son of a highly-respected physician, so the notions of professional acumen, care and community service were emphasized, as well as an appreciation for higher education. While growing up I as well as many of those in immediate preceding generations sneered at these values and pretty much everything patriotic as short-sited and hypocritical. In hindsight, those sentiments were partly correct, but not for the reasons we'd assumed.
I'm inclined to think my uncle, William Tracy Jr., might have had an influence as well but I never knew him. He was also a physician and civic leader in Jamestown, New York, where the area municipal plaza bears his name after his premature passing of a heart attack at age 50 in 1970. The more mild-mannered Stan Lundine, a close friend and protege of my uncle's, went on to serve as Jamestown's mayor, a representative to the US House for six consecutive terms, and NY Lieutenant Governor under Mario Cuomo.
As far as the biggest event in history, for me it would have to be 9/11 for obvious reasons. Yet as a people we have been swayed and our energies channeled by a series of calamitous events that can be fairly unambiguously dated to at least WWI, that is if we look to the deeper causes of such world events and not the superficial "timeline history" causes we are routinely furnished with by our state educational and media institutions. If one looks to US history as one involving the struggle over national versus "central" banking such events become rather apparent.
3 [deleted] 2015-07-16
Thank you for such an honest and sincere answer about your father's impact on you.
Very well said.
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
"If one looks to US history as one involving the struggle over national versus "central" banking such events become rather apparent."
Darn, I love that and would love to hear much, much more on that.
4 know_comment 2015-07-16
Thanks for taking the time. Who shot JFK?
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
the guy in the fucking storm drain.
1 know_comment 2015-07-16
And which yale secret society was he in?
1 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
haha. I think the storm drain shooters were shooters six and seven. they were the back up shooters in case the previous five failed. They were hitmen.
4 [deleted] 2015-07-16
Thanks Dr. Tracy for your time here. I'm curious about your thoughts on what the purpose of Operation Jade Helm is, and why the alternative media seems to be so fixated on it?
4 maiqthetrue 2015-07-16
What do you think is the biggest untold conspiracy that no one talks about?
4 Ambiguously_Ironic 2015-07-16
Have you come across anything in your research/work, either regarding Sandy Hook or any other subject, that points to or suggests the existence of secretive groups of child abusers/murderers protected to any extent by law enforcement and the media?
8 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I think it's certainly possible. Some Sandy Hook researchers, such as Sofia Smallstorm, are even more convinced after having visited the scene.
The phenomenon is likely far more common than the public is aware, in part because political power is built on compromised individuals. John DeCamp's work is perhaps the most significant in terms of identifying the link between child abuse/slavery rings and the US political system. Maury Terry's The Ultimate Evil and David McGowan's Programmed to Kill are also excellent, as are several of Dr. Colin Ross' books.
Let's take Terry's book on the "Son of Sam" killings, a well-researched work suggesting linkages between the US military, intelligence, and occult groups where a handful of journalists were doing what law enforcement should have been doing all along but failed to do because of narrow political aims. McGowan picks up this line of argument to observe that some of the many infamous serial killers often had ties to US military or intelligence, and once apprehended were often given unusually favorable treatment by prosecutors.
3 MajesticShadow104 2015-07-16
Is President Putin of the Russian Federation really the evil man we think he is? Or is this simply the succesful manipulation of the masses?
12 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Briefly, every international military campaign needs a bogey. Communism. Al Qaeda. ISIS. Saddam. Osama. Russia is being encircled by NATO. Putin is, at least ostensibly, a nationalist. So is Assad. So was Qaddafi.
5 MajesticShadow104 2015-07-16
Thank you so much. On my last topic post I was literally attacked for just defending Putin. Sure, not all of his policies are acceptable, but why does the west criticise him (and China) but completely ignore Saudi Arabia or India?
Under Putin, from 2001 to 2007, the Russian economy grew at a rate of 7% per year. Russian Domestic Product (GDP) increased 6 times, climbing up from the 22nd to the 10th largest in the world. Average wages had almost increased tenfold. The percentage of people living in poverty was cut in half. Once totalling nearly 150% of GDP, nearly all foreign debt was paid off. Moscow also became home to the fastest growing group of millionaires. And everyone still thinks Putin is the "bad" guy.
1 ChipyGlitchy 2015-07-16
They're all bad guys, being less evil doesn't absolve someone from their own sins.
Putin isn't the worst leader in the world but that doesn't make him a misunderstood innocent by any means.
1 STARVE_THE_BEAST 2015-07-16
What effective leader can be an innocent in this world?
1 ChipyGlitchy 2015-07-16
None that's for sure, I'm not saying Putin isn't extremely vilified in the western world beyond reality.
Only that he is, regardless of what the MSM says, perfectly capable of being an evil leader with what he actually does do.
He could be great but he sees himself as a new Stalin way too much for that to happen.
3 andronicii 2015-07-16
Dr. Tracy, why is it that you have never once on your blog discussed Leo Strauss's theory of esotericism and the interlinkable academic phenomena of "deconstruction" and epistemological relativism in general, all which seem to determine, inform, and illuminate the manner in which the mainstream media, both "leftish" and "rightish" distorts economic and political reality and tonally and substantively seeks to mold the consciousness of its readership? Thank you.
8 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Why don't you submit something to me through the "Contact" page at MHB (preferably shorn of the unnecessary academic jargon)? I would be happy to consider publishing it.
0 Contrary_mma_hipster 2015-07-16
/r/iamverysmart
3 reputable_opinion 2015-07-16
What do you think of the origin of Chris Dorner's facebook page, the package to Cooper, and the likelihood of any of us being set up in similar ways? Even if you leave facebook, they have a profile for you.
6 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Among other reasons that's why it's a good idea to post as little to Facebook as possible. I use it almost solely to "share" MHB posts with those who choose to "like" the blog.
There's the curious case of Michael Cravey/Thomas Brinkley, the "conspiracy theorist gone mad" story of last year which I think is worthy of deep study and analysis. Cravey was apparently killed on March 3, 2014 after allegedly attacking a couple with a knife and charging a police officer with a hatchet. Yet Cravey's friends say he was a smart, gentle guy who'd never do such things. He complained of someone taking over his Twitter and IM in the weeks prior to the aforementioned date. Cravey's YouTube channel may be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/PrivationProductions
This coming week Peter Klein of Tyranny News, a friend of Cravey's, and I discuss this on my weekly show, Real Politik, available at MHB and Truth Frequency Radio.
http://truthfrequencyradio.com/realpolitik/
6 reputable_opinion 2015-07-16
I feel like you didn't answer my question, but took every opportunity to promote yourself.
3 Expectationslowered 2015-07-16
What would you recommend the community do in order to keep seeking the truths of this world and move humanity towards a better existance for all?
(I realize we don't have all the answers, but what can we do in your opinion to tie us together to form a stronger and more able human community?)
8 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Perhaps we shouldn't be overly ambitious. The first thing one can do is to have the courage to take their own mind seriously and to think for themselves. This involves basic critical thinking that's not taught in most schools, universities, or the mass media--our conduits of "continuing education (instruction/indoctrination)." Such habits of thought begin in the home with the parents, and thus the family is the most significant educational unit. Home schooling is a potential extension of this for families fortunate enough not to have to rely on the state for child care/mandatory indoctrination. The recent surge in home schooling in the US is thus cause for optimism.
2 Expectationslowered 2015-07-16
I agree so much, the school system is teaching us to be subservient, not to think on our own. Its designed to keep the majority of the population in long meaningless labor (such as manufacturing) to seperate from the family structure and thus rely on government provided "education". We need to get back to our familys, question and learn all we can.
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Jim, do you think we can break thru the media veil to alert the masses about how lied to we are or is it a 'opeless fancy???
2 dogrescuersometimes 2015-07-16
Dr. Tracy,
How do we reach awareness critical mass, so that the psyop just stops working because people know better?
1 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Jim, you are my fucking hero, I love you man!
How did you stay sane with all the fallout from Sandy hook?
Are you still in contact with your buddy Anderson Cooper???
6 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Thank you.
Over one year ago I invited Mr. Cooper to travel with me to Newtown in order to reinvestigate the Sandy Hook massacre:
http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/06/23/an-open-letter-to-anderson-cooper/
To date he has not taken me up on the offer.
BTW, many remark that Cooper has ties to the CIA because he spent a few summers while at Yale interning at the Agency. Yet were you aware that Cooper has ties to the CIA that go all the way back to the years of "Wild Bill" Donovan and the OSS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Vanderbilt_III
0 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
I post MHB articles on reddit regularly--glad to see you don't mind!
5 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
Thanks. Reddit folks should feel free to come to MHB to take part in the conversation there as well.
1 GrovyOne 2015-07-16
Is running that blog and writing your books a full-time job?
3 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
No. As suggested above, the blog is deemed entirely extracurricular and apart from professional responsibilities. While many academics count their blogging as part of the professional pursuits, I cannot do so because my employer takes offense at the content of my remarks and tolerates it as part of my free speech right as a US citizen. Since what I do on the blog is media criticism and political analysis, this is arguably tortious interference.
2 GrovyOne 2015-07-16
Does your blogging interfere with your work?
1 hazehk 2015-07-16
79 upvotes for 110 comments? This looks legit reddit... Anyway thank you for this AMA, it is leaps and bounds beyond other topics seen on this sub
1 ZobmieRules 2015-07-16
I've come across a potentially big video about an incoming financial crash. It seems like a concealed advertisement, yet has quite a bit of info to back it up. I've yet to form a solid opinion on it. What about you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkELgi6EkNo
1 DERANGEDcitiZen 2015-07-16
Was 9/11 r34l
1 [deleted] 2015-07-16
James, What are your thoughts on Edward Snowden, Glen Greenwald, and the overall effect the leaked information has had on people?
0 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-07-16
Do you believe you were invited to do this ama at the same time as the CEO's one to dilute the presence of this subreddit in the precedings?
Edit, thanks for being here regardless.
-4 ChangeThroughTruth 2015-07-16
Thoughts on the recent emergence of the topic of flat earth? A huge explosion in interest including some clearly controlled opposition. Do you believe there is anything to it, or do you think the official spinning globe model is entirely correct?
8 BillionaireBob 2015-07-16
There's five of you here.
2 [deleted] 2015-07-16
never heard about this usually I keep an open mind to everything but do you have any info i can read into this
-1 ChangeThroughTruth 2015-07-16
This is an intro to the subject created by another user: https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3cowhi/intro_to_flat_earth_a_basic_primer_v20/
-6 FriendlessComputer 2015-07-16
Judging by the downvotes someone really doesn't want this seen. Come on, I thought censorship isn't cool here?
Question:
Why do you keep posting fabricated information and outright lies on your blog?
For example, this post from 2014: "Top Ten Reasons: Sandy Hook Was an Elaborate Hoax."
Can you cite a single mass shooting in the past 10 years in which police have officially released gruesome autopsy photos of dead kids?
As for parents not seeing the bodies and having closed caskets, thats probably because there was not much left of their kids to see. Do you have any idea what a round fired from the rifle Lanza used does to a kid's skull? It explodes. You don't have an open casket of a kid missing half their head.
Can you explain why an EMT or police officer would waste time tending to a kid with half of his head blown off and his brain matter all over the carpet? That's why you didn't see any "frantic" rushing kids to hospitals. They were all very dead and if you knew anything about emergency protocols you would know triage procedures call for classifying a person's chances of survival immediately to determine who gets urgent treatment. A kid with his brain exploded outside of his head isn't going to be rushed to a hospital.
Check out the police reports, officers and EMTs entered the school to conduct triage, but most of the people they encountered were so obviously dead they did not move them.
Here you are misrepresenting the check-in setup that was established to control the crime scene with a drill check-in that is usually set up hours before the supposed drill.
You also falsely claim an emergency preparedness drill was running in Bridgeport, CT that morning. It was not a drill, it was a class, with people sitting at desks talking about stuff. Moreover there are at least 50 of those drills running at any given time across the country, chances are within 100 miles of your location right now. Does that make any shooting that happens within 100 miles of you a flase-flag?
Here the article you cite returns a 404, but its from Veterans Today, another source infamous for publishing outright lies. The other article you cite, to prove Sandy Hook tweets and webpages were sent before the actual shooting, misrepresents the timezones the articles and tweets are being viewed as. Those tweets weren't sent before the event, the screencaps just show the tweet in a different timezone. Another lie you publish as fact.
Media reports are always changing and evolving. You can't just claim this as proof. People like talking out of their ass to the media. Reporters rushing to break news before anyone else reports that information.
Ah yes, the tired old "nerd can't carry guns" claim. Have you ever held a rifle before? They don't weigh 100 pounds you know. And the ammunition he was carrying would not have added as much weight as you falsely claim.
As for his marksmanship, he was shooting at kids from between 2-20 feet. You don't need to be an expert marksman to make those shots.
Adrenaline, shock. I've seen people laughing and having a good time right after their family members died. Do you have the qualifications necessary to deem their behavior "inappropriate?" Can I see your psychology degree showing you are qualified to make such claims?
"My own cognitive bias makes me think these photos look staged."
I see no proof of photoshopping in any of the pics you mention and I have been working in photography for over 10 years.
If it wasn't destroyed, you think what, the town would let a bunch of conspiracy theorists in at any time to "inspect" the old crime scene?
This is one of the most laughable claims I've ever seen about Sandy Hook. Tons of kids look similar, the video relies on cognitive bias to fill in the blanks. While some basic facial features like noses look similar they are clearly different people. Can you even explain why the government would be smart enough to orchestrate such a massive conspiracy, with tens of thousands of participants, and then be dumb enough to risk blowing the cover by parading dead kids on national TV?
This particular post is not an outlier: I frequently see similar articles posted on your site which rely heavy on cognitive biases and faulty logic to arrive at the conclusions you use to further your agenda.
1 fite_the_pauer 2015-07-16
I would be very interested in hearing Mr. Tracy's replies to these questions if he can muster the courage.
-12 PostNationalism 2015-07-16
how much do conspiracy types resemble religious fanatics with our blind chasing of single ideas?
-1 ShakesJr 2015-07-16
Sure nose his audience, amirite?
13 JamesTracy 2015-07-16
I find both Haslam and Baker's work to be fascinating. I am presently working with a colleague on an edited volume for TrineDay (the publisher of their works), which we hope will be published in 2016. The book will feature chapters by several notable scholars and journalists addressing the topic of false flags.
At the same time a notable JFK assassination researcher remarked to me that none of the people they've ever interviewed concerning Oswald had ever heard of Baker or recollect her from 1963.
I'm not a physicist so I am not inclined to chime in on Wood or specifically how the World Trade Center was demolished. The topic (and not necessarily Wood) serves as a tremendous source of divisiveness in the 9/11 Truth community which is unfortunate. It's safe to conclude that the event was pulled off with the probable active involvement of the US government and Western intelligence community. Thus far, it's the crime of the century, the basis for the phony "war on terror" (war of terror), and the bread and butter of the military-academic-intelligence-media complex.
11 JamesColesPardon 2015-07-16
Yep. Its not like a band-aid - you can't just say "Gun Control" really fast and take erryone's guns in the Take Everybody's Guns Act of 2020. Their would be crazy resistance.
But slowly and constantly plant the idea that assault rifles are bad (but pay no attention to the tanks your local SWAT has - that's for their protection), and you'll get what you want.
Eventually.
0 1337Gandalf 2015-07-16
But I mean there HAS to be a way to infiltrate these groups, but how?
2 tight_lips_tony 2015-07-16
Gun sales go up, up up after these types of events.
2 Sabremesh 2015-07-16
Here is short video with an overlay of the red highlighted zone in "Sandy Hook" in The Dark Knight Rises and an image of Sandy Hook Elementary School from google earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOR67DOM-ZQ