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EPSIODE 95 | Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception More than 100 million soldiers took part in WWII, but not all of them were fighting with guns. There was obviously a lot of administration and infrastructure to deal with, there were codebreakers and spies, and there were even some who engaged in secret deception to trick the enemy. This episode is not abouts ghosts, but rather the Ghost Army. No, not a battalion of unstoppable undead like Aragorn brings with him against the forces of Mordor, but a dirty tricks tactical deception unit the Allies deployed in Europe near the end of the war to fool Axis commanders. Because, as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. This episode is partly a cynical attempt to lure in military history fans, but these are also really interesting stories. And you might consider them to have been, in fact, conspiracies, ones that were successful, by and large. Like what we do? 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SECTIONS 02:58 - Sucker Bait - Dudley Clarke, Jasper Maskelyne, North Africa fun, Operation Crusader, Operation Bertram, the Second Battle of EL Alamein, Sunshields & Cannibals, Operation Canwell, Operation Sly Bob, HMS Houdin 12:08 - I’ll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse! - Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily); Operations Barclay, Mincemeat, Waterfall & Animals, the Trout Memo 16:47 - Don't Touch the Sides! - Operations Overlord, Neptune, Bodyguard, Wadham, Starkey, Tindall & Cockade; 'A' Force, Plan Jael, Operations Fortitude & Ironside, double agents (Garbo, Brutus, Tricycle, Tate & Bronx), Operations Graffham, Royal Flush & Zeppelin 23:52 - We Can Scare You, but You Can't Scare Us - The Ghost Army, Eye of the Needle, Operation Quicksilver, the 3132 Signal Service Company Special & spoof radio, Operation Viersen 30:31 - Surfin' USA - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gets inspired by HMS Tormentor, the Beach Jumpers, PsyOps, the Navy SEALs 36:04 - Would I Lie to You? - The Siege of Yapu, Alexander crosses the Hydaspes River, Sun Bin of the Qi, the Empty Fort Strategy, Mongol deceptions, the Sultan Baybars takes the Krak des Chevaliers in the Ninth Crusade, the Americans vs Brits & North Vietnamese 40:03 - MILDEC strategies & guidelines - Sun Tzu vs. Clausewitz, the fog of war, the five main MILDEC tactics, Magruder's Principle, Jones' Dilemma, Avoid Windfalls, Multiple Forms of Surprise 45:38 - We're Not as Clever as We Think We Are - The military influences fashion, all deception if about perception and psychology Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Magic in the Desert on the Warfare History Network website The Magician of WWII who Made Tanks Disappear on War History Online The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne by David Fisher Operation Bertram on the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia A 5-Minute History Of The Battle Of El Alamein Dummy Tanks and Fake Radio Broadcasts: WW2's Biggest Deception Campaigns Operation Husky: The Classroom for Amphibious Landings Trout Memo on Military History Wiki What Was Operation Mincemeat? Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation on NPR Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was on The History Press "A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War by Whitney T. Bendeck 6 Daring Double Agents on History.com Agent Garbo on MI5 website Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The D-Day Misfit Spies on the National WWII Museum website A Pioneering Experiment - OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II paper by Robert Cowden The Ghost Army Legacy Project website How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis in Smithsonian Magazine The Top-Secret WWII Unit That Fooled the Nazis on History.com Ghost Army book and film How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler in The Week Inside the 23rd, the 3132 Signal Company, The Sonic Deceivers Operation Viersen mission summary D-DAY DECEPTION: OPERATION FORTITUDE SOUTH Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett The Defeat of Hitler: D-Day Invasion on The History Place How Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Crafted an Impressive Military Career on Miltary.com Douglas Fairbanks's Drama on the High Seas on HistoryNet The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. video by The History Guy U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association UDT-SEAL Association Army document FM 3-13.4 Army Support to Military Deception Deceivingly Decisive: U.S. Army Military Deception and Counterintelligence article by First Lieutenant Will Rector  Two Taxonomies of Deception for Attacks on Information Systems by Neil C. Rowe and Hy S. Rothstein, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Oper Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield paper by Joshua E. Kastenberg The lost and found art of deception on US Army website ‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written in Irish Times The Grand Strategy of Carl von Clausewitz on Warroom On War Without the Fog article in Military Review Genghis Khan's Secrets of Success on HistoryNet Hiding in Plain Sight: The Science of Military Camouflage blog on UF PRO Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment paper by the Rand Corporation Deploying Deception on the Battlefield in Scientific American The Military Influence on Fashion on Highsnobiety The Psychology of Cognitive Deception Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller 07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO 12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true 16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time)  17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again) 24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Battalion 29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money 35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult 43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander  Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017 STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022 Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links CIA documents about Ingo Swann Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse The Monroe Institute website CIA entry for Gondola Wish CIA entry for Project Grill Flame Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999 Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change) Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998) Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion? Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive Ministry of Defence 2002 report UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown  The Farsight Institute website  Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer  The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer  Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video Aaron C. Hanson documents archive Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes) Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 93 | From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories Guest: Nile Séguin, comedian, actor, writer, French-Canadian Canada, northern neighbor to the United States, a sovereign nation that’s only party sovereign, second largest country in the world by size but 37th by population. It’s a place filled with fairly reasonable people, lots of trees and many mysteries. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:18 - A bit about Nile (including his new podcast), where Canada gets its name, Canucks 09:05 - The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls 15:10 - Jerome of Sandy Cove, NS 25:04 - Project Y: the flying VZ-9 Avrocar  30:34 - Canadian pronunciation and slang 45:22 - Nile has homework Music by Fanette Ronjat MORE INFO: Nile Séguin website Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: Plandemic Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: The Moon Landing Nile's IMdb page Mercer Report video: Canada Explained Origin of the name "Canada" - government webpage The Screaming Tunnel on To Do Canada Screaming Tunnel Niagara Falls: Haunted or Hoax? on I've Been BT Real History of the Screaming Tunnel | Niagara Haunt’s Legit Legend on Ghost Walks Jerome of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia on Historic Mysteries The story of Jerome: The southwestern N.S. mystery that never ends, even 110 years after his death on Saltwire Jerome Identified - An Early Mystery Solved on Canadian Mysteries The Story Of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer Project on Simple Flying Canada Built a Flying Saucer. It didn't work; the story of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar video The Avrocar in Toronto from the 1950s video Coanda Effect – Avro Car on Mysteries of Canada What’s Going On With the Way Canadians Say ‘About’? on Atlas Obscura Canadianisms on CMU School of Computer Science website Canadian Slang: A Guide To Bunny Hugs, Loonies, And More 25 Canadian slang words you should learn before visiting Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER  

EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10) A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates 08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991 12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal 21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats 25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files 32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino  in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes 40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ 44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent 50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all Music by Fanette Ronjat Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad. More Info: The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video  The Kinship of Killers FBI Phoenix History The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston Devereux Reports website Danny Casolaro on Alchetron Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair FBI files on Dan Casolaro Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades Danny Casolaro's files and notes Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro The INSLAW File The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour The INSLAW Affair documents Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7 Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1 Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3 Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2 Parts 8-10 The INSLAW Octopus in Wired Code for PROMIS software BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption BCCI Scandal document Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal Murder in Rancho Santa Fe Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed... Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPSIODE 91 | Tartaria Sauce : The Great Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities One day, I wondered if there were any conspiracy theories about architecture, which is something I am quite keen on, so I fired up the laptop and did a Google search, and sure enough, there is. One. One that’s weird and funny and just a little bit sad. While researching this, a new conspiracy pops up on the interwebs, this time about urban planning, another subject I‘m very interested in. And so, between the Tartarian Empire/Great Mud Flood theory, and the newly minted freak out about 15-minute cities, it felt like this episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse was sort of writing itself. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:08 - Trans-Continental Hustle - Fomenko's New Chronology and Levashov's ramblings 04:51 - This City Never Sleeps - NYC's Singer Building & Penn Station, San Francisco's 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, the White City at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago 10:49 - World in My Eyes - Great Tartaria, the Great Mudflood, YouTube and Reddit 15:29 - They Might Be Giants - Tartarians were giants, mountains are petrified buildings, ancient nukes 18:29 - Bury the Evidence - Zero point energy, Nikola Tesla, we was robbed, a 1957 CIA report is proof (or not) 25:45 - I of the Storm - It's the QAnon of architecture 29:56 - City to City - Gemma O'Doherty discovers the 15-minute city, Carlos Moreno's ideas, Frank Llyod Wright's Broadacre Cities, Build Back Better and Agenda 21/30 35:02 - Deeply Dippy - O'Doherty ramps up her rhetoric, Oxford gets in trouble, Neo-Nazis and Not Our Future make noise 38:46 - Party at Ground Zero - Death threats, climate change deniers get in on the action, Jordan Peterson and other screwheads weigh in, not really a new idea, Jan Gehl's groundbreaking ideas on urban planning, many cities are making plans (like Prague) 45:24 - Bitter Sweet Symphony - 15-minute cities have become a rallying point for alt-right madness and conspiracy theories Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions episode Khazar Love Triangle episode Singer Building on Skyscraper.org The Story Behind The Singer Building: NYC's Lost Skyscraper The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 1915 on America's Best History WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893 The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds on Smart History 5 fun facts about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Lost Empire of Tartaria in Never Was Magazine Tartaria and the Mud Flood on the Skeptoid podcast Inside The Empire Of Tartaria, One Of History’s Wildest Conspiracies Twitter thread on Tartaria by @cinemashoebox Tartarian Architecture on Reddit Nikola Tesla - The Monster from Venus episode Tartaria Uncovered: AntiquiTech, Tesla, Mud Flood & Beyond! subreddit Inside the wild architecture conspiracy theory gaining traction online John Levi on YouTube Philipp Druzhinin on YouTube Tartaria: an Empire hidden by history, or revealed by ignorance? Question the Narrative | Trees, Titans, or Melted Buildings? History Reset video The Lost Empire of Tartaria on Historical Blindness National Cultural Development Under Communism - 1957 CIA report Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture Tartaria Explained in Three Minutes video What is the Truth about Tartaria video The Tartarian Meltdown YouTube channel The 15-minute city: how Ireland's conspiracy theorists grew to fear an urban planning concept Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities 15-Minute City on Deloitte The 15-Minute City: Putting people at the center of urban transformation website Paris’ Vision for a ‘15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement Paris, the 15-minute city in The New European THE PROMISE OF THE 15-MINUTE CITY on Politico The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Revisiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Vision for “Broadacre City” Agenda 21 - This Land Is My Land episode How '15-minute cities' turned into an international conspiracy theory What is the '15-minute city' conspiracy theory? Why is the apparently harmless idea of 15-minute cities exercising conspiracy theorists? Oxford, the 15-Minute City, and the Birth of a Lie Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories? Oxford hit by wave of protests over '15-minute city' backlash Oxford protest video Oxfordshire and Oxford councillors threatened over traffic filters False climate lockdown claims in Oxford lead to death threats Don’t lock me in my neighborhood! 15-minute city hysteria sweeps the UK Walkable Cities Jan Gehl website "The Human Scale" in IMDb Times Square Transformation Times Square: Putting the “square” back in Times Square Citing “Livability and Mobility,” Bloomberg Declares Broadway Plazas a Success on Next City Portland's 20-Minute Neighborhoods after Ten Years: How a Planning Initiative Impacted Accessibility London's Gear Change plan Prague Metropolitan Plan Prague 2050 Plan Prague Institute of Planning and Development plans How can we bring ‘zero auto ownership’ out of the shadows? Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia 15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 90 | Oh, Canada!  The Great White North, the Just Society - Canada is a cold place filled with reasonable people. For the most part. But not even they are immune to the pull of the conspirasphere, and have hatched some wacky ideas all their own.  This episode is by request of a Canadian fan of the podcast. So enjoy! Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02: 32 - Horton Hears an "Eh!" - Tim Hortons, Double-Doubles & Timbits, cocaine & reincarnation 05:35 - Little Potato - PM Justin Trudeau's paternity raises eyebrows 08:37 - Calling Occupants - The FLQ, Pierre Trudeau and the October Crisis 11:26 - Miles From Our Home - Baroness Birdwood, the 2014 Parliament Hill attack & the Parliament bombing of 1966 14:50 - David DePape visits San Francisco 17:02 - Snakes & Arrows - The NHL hates Canada, the Avro Arrow 21:34 - Gimme Your Money, Please - Canadians are talented, Canadian money has demons 25:23 - Bird on the Wire - Her Majesty Queen Romana Didulo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Canada; the White Helmets 30:03 - Magic Power - Nahanni, the Headless Valley 34:51 - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - The Shag Harbour UFO Incident 38:34 - Everything to Everyone - The disappearance of Granger Taylor  Music by Fanette Ronjat Lapsus Linguae: I continually refer to the Avro Arrow as the "Arvo" Arrow because I was not paying attention More Info Is this the most Canadian photo ever? X-Ray Shoe Fitter - Hilarious Histories with Nile Séguin (video) What are some conspiracy theories about Canada? 14 things you didn't know about Tim Hortons The Strange Conspiracy Behind Tim Hortons Coffee Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee on Snopes Top 5 Canadian Conspiracy Theories on Mysteries of Canada The insane conspiracy of Justin Trudeau Castro The internet is going wild over a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau has fake eyebrows Joe Rogan jokes Justin Trudeau needs to prove he’s not Fidel Castro’s son The FLQ and the October Crisis The October Crisis on Le Canada October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart Baroness Birdwood obituary Bomb in Parliament misses its target in 1966 Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times, police report to reveal Uncovering a killer: Addict, drifter, walking contradiction What we know about David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi DePape in bizarre phone call to KTVU says he should have been 'more prepared' Millions believe in conspiracy theories in Canada Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings Why Is the NHL So Anti-Canadian? Is the NHL rigged against Canada? Not really The Avro Arrow Was Canada’s Awesome, Pointless Jet Fighter Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow Avro Arrow debate on Quora The Canadian Conspiracy - satirical video from 1985 The Devil Is in the Hairdo True Or False? Canadian Money Once Had A Demon Hidden In Queen Elizabeth’s Hair Who is Romana Didulo, the Filipino immigrant who calls herself ‘Queen of Canada’? ‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’ Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria's First Responders Into Terrorists Russian trolls attack Syrian humanitarians to cover up war crimes Playing into Putin’s Hands: The White Helmets, Douma, And How U.S. Failures Become Russian Opportunities Legends of the Nahanni Valley Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men Valley of Headless Men: Mysterious Decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley Why the Nahanni Valley is Creepier Than Any Horror Film Red Alert - UFOs as Threat! CC episode (Falcon Lake Incident) Shag Harbour Incident continues to fascinate small N.S. fishing village The Shag Harbour UFO incident video on CBC Shag Harbour UFO Centre Granger Taylor: The Spaceman of Vancouver Island The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared Spaceman - documentary about Granger Taylor B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship — then he disappeared What happened to Granger Taylor? Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPSIODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society History is full of those who became tyrants or aspired to become one. Even in a country like the United States in the fairly enlightened 20th century, there were those who thought that, well, actually, their vision of how things should be was the best one, and that they should probably just be in charge. And if you opposed them, they said all sorts of disagreeable things about you. And sometimes they just outright lied. Welcome to the John Birch Society, where anything and everything goes in the life and death struggle against international Communism. And they are kind of the foundation of today's far right. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:10 - Candy-Coated Commie Hater - Candy maker Robert Welch Jr. was a smart guy, but also a hardcore Baptist and rabid anti-Communist 04:37 - Birch the Baptist Spy - Angry Baptist zealot John Birch became a spy in China during WWII, getting killed by Communists just after Japan surrendered; Welch was inspired, founding the John Birch Society in 1958 along with Fred Koch, Robert Waring Stoddard, Harry Lynde Bradley and anti-Semite Revilo P. Oliver, who went pretty much full Nazi later on 09:32 - Red Scares - Marxism's beginnings, the First Red Scare (1919-1920), bans and deportations, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Second Red Scare (1947-1958), loyalty oaths, the Communist Party outlawed, the Black List 15:04 - JBS BS - Conspiracy theories aplenty, America was "great" in the year 1900, created the water fluoridation freakout, Dr. Strangelove, membership grew while Welch got weirder, other far righter groups not so supportive, Barry Goldwater set the stage for Reagan, the Soviet Negro Republic pamphlet 23:28 - Go Your Own Way - The Birchers started to lose supporters in the 70s and 80s, the ultra-conservative US Taxpayers Party splits off and then becomes the Constitution Party, the American Heritage Party split from them and then became the Christian Liberty Party - both foundational to the Tea Party movement 29:48 - Fellow Travelers - Jim Gilchrist is a fan of the American Heritage Party, so is Alex Jones lapdog Jerome Corsi, who eats heartily from the conspiracy buffet; the JBS pushes Agenda 21 CTs, keeps records on political voting records; some think Trumpism is basically Bircherism Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info:  Who Was John Birch? - 1961 Time Magazine article Robert Welch, Founder of Birch Society, Dies at 85 The New American (the JBS magazine) JBS Freedom Index The Constitution Party website Christian Liberty Party website America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context The John Birchers’ Tea Party Tea party: Dark side of conservatism on Poltico The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule" The Tea Party Movement as a Modern Incarnation of Nativism in the United States and Its Role in American Electoral Politics, 2009-2014 paper The John Birch Society Is Back Flight from reason - Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’ Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy How the John Birch Society radicalized the American Right The fringe group that broke the GOP’s brain — and helped the party win elections on Vox American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn Robert Evans's Behind the Bastards podcast Behind the Bastards episodes about the John Birch Society:  Part One & Part Two Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures) Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way.  Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years. Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables 14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM 19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations 27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases  36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines 43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?) 49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at  joshbachynski@gmail.com) Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript) AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript) Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right Five Worlds of AI At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence Falcon LLM The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video) Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service? Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker The weirdest uses of AI How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website Beauty.AI Visions of AI Utopia Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045 Ray Kurzweil website Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 87 | CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (World Is Weird 9) True crime is a popular genre, mainly because people love mysteries. Here are three cases from the conspiracy world that fit the bill, from three different decades and three different countries, where the weird and the unexplained meet head on.  We’ll look at the Lead Masks Case from Brazil, the UK’s Zigmund Adamski case (sometimes called the first UFO murder), and the Yuba County Five, also known as “America’s Dyatlov”. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:26 - Killing Mask - The Brazilian Lead Masks Case (August 21, 1966) 17:31 - Working in the Coal Mine - The strange death of Zigmund Adamski (June 6, 1980) 24:35 - Misty Mountain Hop - America's Dyatlov: the Yuba County Five (February 24, 1978) Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths on Today I Found Out The Mysterious “Lead Masks Case” on Ghost Theory O caso das Máscaras de Chumbo (in Portuguese) Mistério das máscaras de chumbo segue sem solução 54 anos depois (54-year anniversary of Lead Masks Case, in Portuguese) Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967 1966, August 17: The Lead Masks Mystery on Anomalies Alien Abduction Claims in Yorkshire on BBC Inside Out The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? on Strange Outdoors Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal Alan Godfrey UFO website The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story episode 5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back in the Washington Post Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five Let’s talk about it: Gary Mathias and his four friends The haunting case of the Mathias Group (Yuba County Five) on Strange Outdoors 'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five on Mental Floss ‘Yuba County Five’ uncovers more answers and even more questions about the 5 California men who went missing in 1978 on Podsauce What Happened to the Yuba County Five? on Historic Mysteries Yuba County Five Case Analysis | Unexplained Disappearance and Deaths video by Dr. Todd Grande The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain on The Crime Wire Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future.  Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron" 06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases 12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios 18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames" 22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI 28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world 33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying) 38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics 46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics The Moral Concept website The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk Josh Bachynski YouTube channel Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video Josh's book The Zombies Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video  Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site) Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky. Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence? Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes 30 Most Evil Movie Computers Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked 30 Famous Fictional Computers Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video I tried using AI. It scared me. video Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell  TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER