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  • Neck 13

    Note the “13” on Steve Paddock’s neck. Then have a look at his suicide photos and see if you can find that 13 on his neck. And what does it mean to have a 13 tattooed just below your adams apple? The photo comes from The Daily Mail – UK.

  • If We Find A Gun

    Steve Wynn an owner of a Las Vegas casino discusses the shooting and Stephen Paddock. Wynn also said Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend were well-known to his staff. “He’s been staying in Las Vegas since ‘06. So you know, we’re talking about 11 years with his girlfriend or at least in recent years, frequent visitor,…

  • Steve Was A…..

    ( About 15 seconds ) A lot of people on the usual conspiracy sites think the missing part of the utterance is “arms dealer.” The casinos were used to launder his profits. Some how the people he was selling the guns to twigged on to the plot and did a double cross of which ever…

  • Tom Angell Has a Blog

    Tom Angell, whose Drug War newsletter focused mainly on cannabis I greatly enjoy (You can subscribe here), now has a blog too. The Marijuana Moment. A typical article: Congressman: Medical Marijuana Can Help Breast Cancer Sufferers. And the Congressman? Matt Gaetz (R – Florida).

  • Some Conspiracies To Entertain You

    Commenter at Zero Hedge AurorusBorealus has come up with a few interesting theories about Steve Paddock the Las Vegas shooter. I’m skipping #1 because it is about a very minor detail. You can look it up at the link provided if you desire. 2) 2 Privates planes, millionaire, completely secretive, spoke to no one about…

  • Published 26 May 2017

    ( About 3 minutes ) This video was released on 24 May 2017: ( About 2 1/2 minutes )

  • A Cab Driver – Live Report – Las Vegas

    A female cab driver gives a live report in Las Vegas from the about time the shooting starts. You can hear the shooting. She picks up some people from the concert including an obviously hysterical woman. The men with her seem more collected. Maybe those Indiana Jones movies had female psychology (generally) pegged. My wife…

  • Security Screens

    The aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting has brought out a lot of craziness. I don’t buy a lot of the “false flag” stuff pushed in this video. But their look at the call for more security in Las Vegas, one of the most security conscious cities in America because of all the loose cash,…

  • Las Vegas Conspiracy Theories

    ( About 3 1/2 minutes ) If it turns out he was an antifa supporter that is going to prove extremely inconvenient for our friends on the left. Here is another one. The “you’re all going to die” bit is interesting. ( About 7 minutes )

  • Different Calibers

  • The Gat Crank

  • How To Prevent Another Las Vegas

    Do not hold shows in the vicinity of tall buildings. Because in a nation of 300 million private weapons how in the heck do you implement gun control? And when only criminals have guns? Well Chicago. Or how about my little town? Rockford Now 2nd Most Dangerous Small City in U.S. We suffer from an…

  • Liberal Lies About Islamism Elected Trump

    ( About 7 minutes )

  • Western Women Are Ungrateful

    I think he is directing his tirade mainly to the SJWs (more prevalent at university), but still. He points out (indirectly) that patriarchy is a benefit to women. ( About 13 minutes )

  • Big Scale Fail

    ( About 12 minutes ) Why central planning fails – one size does not fit all. There is also the information problem. One person at the top has a hard time listening to millions on the bottom. Hayek explained it in his Nobel Prize lecture “The Pretence of Knowledge”.

  • Making Victims

    There is a concerted move on the part of the Democrat Party to construe white people as the cause of our nations problems. This can only lead to mass murder if allowed to go on long enough. ( About 7 minutes ) R. L. Miller noted the steps required to carry out mass murder with…

  • Infectious Diseases And Totalitarianism And Hitler

    ( About 6 minutes ) Mentioned in the video: Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism == Trump is afraid of germs. Shaking hands is ‘barbaric’: Donald Trump, the germaphobe in chief. Richard Nixon was afraid of hospitals. He was afraid he would die if he went to a hospital. Funny enough…

  • Psychedelics – Life and Death

    ( About 14 minutes ) Discussed in the video: The God helmet. Our Federal Government in its “infinite wisdom” (no medical use) has delayed this work for 50 years. Well “God in a pill” is a threat to a lot of interests. Churches for one. Leary’s original work was on alcoholics. Today we would say…

  • Dominance Hierarchies

    ( About 14 minutes ) Who should be king?

  • White Privilege

    (About 2 minutes) The idea of collective guilt is the most bigoted attitude possible. My ancestors, having arrived in America in the 1900s had nothing to do with slavery. They fought on neither side of the American Civil War. I’m going to now bring up a most sensitive topic. IQ. It is known to be…

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