Ep 50 - 5 Rules to Conspiracies with C Derick Varn - Part 1

Part 1 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
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C Derick Varn returns to give us a primer on how to interpret conspiratorial claims, and takes on a glorious history of what certain intelligence services were up to after WWII and why most coverups aren't to hide secretive evil dealings but usually just obscuring fuck-ups. Topics covered include: Rambo 3, Predator, Rogerian Arguments, George Lincoln Rockwell, business conspiracies nowhere near as sexy as government conspiracies, why did the 9/11 Report get limited from the start, parsimony as useful tool, and so much more.
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Links:

Richard Aoki as FBI informant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9HRp0RIV8

Heavy Radicals: : The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 - http://www.zero-books.net/books/heavy-radicals

The Richard Wolff video from 2008 I referred to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTkEBIoxBA

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Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
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Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ is out from Unlikely Press. http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics
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