"In February 1988, Randi tested the gullibility of the media by perpetrating a hoax of his own. By teaming up with Australia's 60 Minutes program and by releasing a fake press package, he built up publicity for a "spirit channeler" named Carlos"
In this video James Randi explains how they developed the Carlos hoax , which I will only be too happy to deconstruct later
"James Randi Speaks: The Carlos Hoax" https://t.co/Qs3osBKs4u
This is the letter that James Randi wrote to Judge Hurley , appealing for clemency, in the identity theft case :
Well, all the top notch art museums like MoMA and the Whitney Museum were happy to display and promote the work of the Venezuelan artist Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.)
David Gorski was a blogger for the Seed Media Group (SMG) from 2005 to 2016
SMG Founder : Adam Bly - In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
He sits on the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science https://t.co/2gcpe7TOHFapollo.io/people/David/G…
Adam Bly, of Seed Media Group, gives the keynote address at Envisioning Organization: Architecture + Information conference
- Organized by Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture, and cosponsored by the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Fisher College of Business
Look who else was there..
David Kuhn and guest . Lol. Didn't they recognize Ghislaine Maxwell?
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DLD Founder Marcel Reichart, Davide Serra and Adam Bly attend the Burda DLD Nightcap 2011 at the Steigenberger Belvedere hotel on January 25, 2012 in Davos, Switzerland.
(Photo by Nadine Rupp/Getty Images)
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DLD founder Steffi Czerny and Clemens Boersig, chairman of Deutsche Bank AG . DLD is a global conference network on innovation, digital, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-form science and culture which connects business.."
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I only came across Adam Bly and his Seed Media in this article:
"“Science”Blogs, As Told By A Defecting “Science”Blogger"
“ Apparently, to Adam Bly, culture is business, especially since the views expressed by the 69 bloggers who post on SMG’s ‘Science’Blogs are in the best interest of sponsors.” https://t.co/NP44NxnlQjageofautism.com/2010/08/the-ne…
NYT : " Science writers play rough. They like hoaxes, humiliations and Oxbridge-style showdowns that let them use words like “claptrap” and “gibberish.”.." https://t.co/sA0uyk6jZqweb.archive.org/web/2012051610…
"Seed Media Group, which oversees ScienceBlogs, eventually killed off the commercial blog, but the staff bloggers kept leaving. Some have predicted that the ScienceBlogs network won’t survive the defections. “The ship is sinking,” mused PZ Myers, [of] Pharyngula
"does everyone take for granted now that science sites are where graduate students, researchers, doctors and the “skeptical community” go not to interpret data or review experiments but to chip off one-liners, promote their books and jeer at smokers, fat people &churchgoers?"
"I was tangentially involved with another character who was the recipient of Epstein’s beneficence. John Brockman was my agent, too. I published in a few of his annual question books, he got me a good advance on The Happy Atheist..."
- PZ Myers
"as it turns out, thanks to PZ’s old enemy getting a little too chatty with a reporter, we learn some more news:
In his complaint, Pivar made a point of mentioning by name two prominent members of SMG’s board: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell"
"When Myers moved his blog to ScienceBlogs, his traffic began to skyrocket. In essence, he became the “rock star” of ScienceBlogs, receiving the vast majority of the traffic, getting mentions from the science journal Nature and accolades from all sorts of popular atheists."
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"When the American President Theodore Roosevelt had the idea for the United Nations early during the Second World War, and wrote the outline for Churchill to approve, there was a lot of fancy rhetoric about human rights and religious freedom.".."
"However, no one involved in the UN’s formation doubted that the clear, single aim was to create an organisation which would lead us directly to a World Government. That was what they said. That was the plan. As written by Roosevelt and his aides.."..
"It’s worth remembering, by the way, that one of the men responsible for the UN was John J McCloy, a former president of the World Bank, a Wall Street insider, a former partner in a law firm .."..
"According to the Land Registry, the freehold of the hotel is owned by a company that involves family members of the infamous Nicholas van Hoogstraten."
"Residents of 2-6 Palmeira Square in Hove took van Hoogstraten to court in September 1999 alleging he had used multiple aliases as a shadow director of Saga Properties to indicate interests in the flats to block a property deal on the freehold."
https://t.co/ejtfNjZQswen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_…
Tompkins Square was named after a Freemason, I wasn't surprised to find.
The first Sovereign Grand Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction Scottish Rite, Daniel D. Tompkins, the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825.
"Tompkins was the Democratic-Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1816 presidential election. The ticket of James Monroe and Tompkins easily prevailed over limited Federalist opposition." https://t.co/TAy89KAjEBen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D.…
"Tompkins also served as the first Sovereign Grand Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction Scottish Rite, a branch of Freemasonry. Tompkins served in this capacity from 1813 to 1825.."
https://t.co/SsRAuW26s9en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_C…
Interesting that someone who worked at a company associated with John Solanges, who was arrested with a bunch of Colombian mercenaries for the Haitian president's assassination, says that he works for Save The Children Haiti ..
Also interesting that this 1st tweet here👇points out founder of Save the Children John Dalglish's visit to Haiti to help the Clinton Foundation, as well as his association with Canadian prime minister Trudeau
Why? Let's take a look..
Those 3 Haitian Americans Edlyne Jeudy, Jean Milot Berquin and Nixon Santerre are registered with their Florida addresses at
FWA SA A JACMEL AVAN, INC. here:
Also on that document is company secretary:
PIERRE RENOLD, AVRIL
#74 WOLF 3
JACMEL, HAITI OC https://t.co/Hm9gytDrWEsearch.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corpor…