ALBIONSAINT
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1 hour ago, Russian Saint said:
From what I’ve read, the guy wearing the hat was shot by an individual from the Antifa crowd. The same crowd that’s been terrorising, looting and burning cities across America for months.
It’s not like the New York Times to get a story wrong
Goebbels theory that "if you want to control the population and you have to deal with an opposition, then you should accuse the other side of the sin or the trickery which you yourself are using".
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2 hours ago, freethinker said:
According to research from the Scottish conservatives 😂😂😂
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More far right mayhem. Governments really need to come down hard on this.
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More far right violence in Portland. When will the far right learn that violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
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Great idea. Young people should be taught the truth about our history
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6 minutes ago, freethinker said:
Still waiting on Arran sinking ....
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12 minutes ago, freethinker said:
A Communist Crybaby and denier of free football speech has taken over the Matchday Thread Section of our
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It would appear that this isn’t just about Greece and Turkey. France, China, Egypt , UAE and Libya are all involved.
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I have my mask already for returning to the stadium, I call it the freethinking Shullster 😂
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The goalkeeper for the first goal should be playing down the racecourse 😂
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1 minute ago, Sue Denim said:
Today Peru overtook Belgium to become the country with the highest mortality in the world.
Peru has one of the earliest (March 16th) and longest (five months) lockdowns.
Hope Paddington is okay
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Well that was strange! Just saw a taxi swerve all over the road and collide into a wall on the Glasgow rd. 😂😂
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The Panda club will be giving these free masks out when games return to the stadium. Great idea to support two great causes.
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It’s was opened/raised a few times last year. Got stuck for half an hour at the lights waiting for it to close.
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Nailed it James 👍🏻
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It’s all about illusory pattern detection
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Basketball, tennis and soccer all out in support of this terrible crime against an unarmed man in front of his three children. Shot in the back seven times, no justification.
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Great piece on the radicalisation of white people by the far right.
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1 hour ago, Long John Baldy said:
I remember someone using the word "hysteria" on this thread in the early stages, seems it's back in fashion...................
Nearly 17,500 children were tested for coronavirus across Scotland over the past week - but only 49 were positive, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Demand for testing has increased "significantly" since pupils returned to schools earlier this month
But the first minister said the 49 children aged between two and 17 who tested positive last week was only two more than the previous week.
Ms Sturgeon said there "may have been some technical issues" which led to people being "directed erroneously to testing centres in England", and that work was ongoing to resolve the problem.
It’s always been with us. The worried well are going to destroy our NHS. Before Covid I spoke with someone from NHS 24 who told me they regularly had calls about sunburn!!
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19 hours ago, freethinker said:
Fascists Boris and Nicola will step up the Mask wearing over the next few weeks.
All children will be forced to wear masks in the classroom.
All people will be forced to wear masks outside in public.
Will end with all folk having to wear masks inside their own houses.
Just say no.
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2 hours ago, GMan said:
I got a response to the message I sent Div.
'Hi,
Unfortunately users St. Ricky and FarawaySaint were sending unsolicited photographs of their penises to other forum members. Obviously this is unacceptable behaviour that cannot be tolerated on a forum such as this, and therefore I had little choice but to confine them to The Sin Bin, where they will remain indefinitely. It's not just the reputation of the forum that these two perverts have put in jeopardy, but the good name of all St. Mirren fans.
Yours Sincerely,
Div'
I always knew they two were dodgy.
Is it penises or peni?
also was it a wide angle lens or telescopic lens? Which ever one there would have had to have been a long exposure time.
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Coronavirus
in General Nonsense
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An 'old man in a chair' pulling rabbits from his bag of 'truths'
Vernon Coleman is peddling played-out Covid-19 conspiracy theories
PUBLISHED : 27 JUN 2020 AT 04:00
NEWSPAPER SECTION: NEWS
WRITER: OLIVER FENNELL
Vernon Coleman, a prolific author and doctor, is seen on a YouTube video clip.
An old man in a chair sits, legs crossed, next to a dark-wood bookcase stocked with hardbacks. He speaks of "the truth" about coronavirus and repeats many of the conspiracy theories we've heard elsewhere, but he does so calmly, reading from prepared notes, peering over half-moon spectacles.
He speaks with the structure, timbre and pace of the experienced wordsmith; indeed, Vernon Coleman is a prolific author and a former newspaper columnist. Importantly for his followers, he is also a doctor.
In latter years, major publishers have refused his work, he has resigned from newspapers whose editors disagreed with his opinions, and YouTube often deletes his videos. To his opponents, this validates the argument his material is dangerous; to his supporters, it validates the belief he is being silenced. Dr Coleman has alleged that pharmaceutical companies control Britain's National Health Service (NHS). He is anti-vaccine. He has claimed GPs are among the top three causes of death in the United Kingdom. In the 1980s, he called Aids "the hoax of the century". Now, he says the same of coronavirus.
His suggestion that Aids presents a minimal risk to heterosexual people (the rate of heterosexual HIV diagnoses in the US in 2018 was actually 24%, according to hiv.org) is one of the "many truths" that Dr Coleman claims to have exposed, leading to him being "banned by all mainstream media".
Now it is coronavirus which has him delving into his bag of "truths", and in doing so, taking the less imaginative approach favoured by less qualified commentators -- that of attempting to convince doubters by stating earnestly "these are the facts".
Government officials do not feel the need to specify their coronavirus briefings are "the truth". Newspaper articles are not prefaced with a qualification that what follows are "facts". But in their eagerness to convince us of their legitimacy, conspiracy theorists sprinkle these two words throughout their digital missives, so much so that the words themselves have become cliches.
Indeed, these self-proclaimed "truthers" are adept at sloganeering. Whether it is deliberate or merely a modern consequence, who knows? But their employment of a tactic that Dr Coleman criticises is just one of many contradictions.
They label the public "sheeple" and decry the "brainwashing" we have undergone, at the same time as unhesitatingly lapping up any conspiratorial crumb flicked their way. "Question everything", they insist, but then ignore us when we question them. They indignantly tell us to "Do your research", but fail to fact-check the material they share. They clamour for "freedom of speech", but kick dissenting voices out of their forums. They accuse the media of "scaremongering", and then tell us 5G is what's killing people, that our facemasks are making us sick, and that a coronavirus vaccine will implant tracking bugs in us. There is an unrelenting denouncement of "fake news" while disseminating that very thing.
The coronavirus crisis is labelled variously as a "plandemic" or a "scamdemic". Those who do not believe are urged to "wake up!", and material is distributed invariably with a plea to "share this with everybody before it gets taken down!".
And in that, we get a hint of their motivations. In the social media age, the share is the most quantifiable currency. It not only brings new names to the fore, it grants renewed momentum to discredited and vengeful public figures such as Judy Mikovitz, and it resurrects relics like David Icke -- and Vernon Coleman.
Don't imagine, either, that old-fashioned currency is not a motivation. The truther movement, among its higher ranks at least, is commercial. "Follow the money", we are told, to find what's really behind coronavirus. But banned videos resurface on for-profit platforms. Donations are sought for oblique "research". Public speakers charge thousands of dollars. Icke's website has a £99 (3,800 baht) paywall and a shop. And Dr Coleman's videos are rounded off with a two-minute entreaty to "ask everyone you know" to watch his channel and visit his website -- from where you can buy his books. QAnon, probably the leading conspiracy theory community, and certainly the most sophisticated, sells merchandise through Amazon. You can buy its slogans on T-shirts. Choose from one emblazoned with "The Great Awakening", or "Follow the White Rabbit" or "Where We Go One, We Go All", or perhaps you'd prefer a "Red Pill" or "Breadcrumbs" design. Yours for US$20 (618 baht) apiece.
QAnon's motivations are bigger than simply selling tat. The movement is starkly political; ferociously anti-Clinton and an unabashed supporter of another modern master of the slogan, Donald Trump. He, apparently, is the man who will bring down the illuminati that cooked up the coronavirus crisis. "Draining the swamp", they call it.
The average social media crusader is probably acting in the spirit of community. They believe in the theories and feel it is their duty to spread the material supporting them. It is unrealistic to expect them to apply the same due diligence that is a legal requirement of the mass media they are so suspicious of, and whoever is creating this content will understand this. Their agenda can be furthered by stoking a climate of fear (while accusing others of doing the same), fomenting urgency, and instilling in people the contagious conviction that they are underdogs rising up against enormous powers and unseeable evils.
Whether the agenda is politics or profit, once the people willingly do someone else's bidding, it's a clear sign the propaganda is working.
Fight the power. Fight the lies. Avoid mass media. Follow the white rabbit. Accuse your enemy of what you yourself are guilty. Wake up to the insidious use of slogans, and spread the word -- preferably using slogans.
Even an old man in a chair knows this.