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Paula Oliviera, a 26-year-old Brazilian lawyer, claimed earlier this month that while visiting Switzerland she was assaulted by a group of neo-Nazi punks. The three skinheads grabbed her as she stood outside a train station in Zurich, speaking Portuguese over her cell phone. They made some racial slurs, then carved the initials of Switzerland's wildly... Continue Reading →
As if he isn't busy enough saving the world alongside Freemasonic ninjas, former financial journalist Benjamin Fulford also had to have spinal surgery on January 22. But don't worry about him. He was well enough to be a guest on Jeff Rense's radio show the very next day, and he finally understood why he had... Continue Reading →
A couple of extremely weird hoaxes have been exposed recently. Or maybe they haven't. One might have been was a 9/11 Truther pseudocide, the other isn't really a hoax but might be a hoax by way of its non-hoaxiness. Update: The Truther, Ace Baker, is alive and "well". Scroll down for info. On January 6,... Continue Reading →
A strange literary fraud burns Oprah (again) Nearly every case of literary fraud I've covered on this blog (Anthony Godby Johnson, James Frey, Misha Defonseca, etc.) has one thing in common with every other case: Oprah Winfrey. I don't have anything against Oprah, but I gotta say that woman is gullible. With a capital G.... Continue Reading →
It's an outrage. It's an abomination. It's utter B.S. The short-lived hoax of Ashley Todd isn't particularly interesting (nor unique), but the reactions it elicited in the blogosphere were quite revealing. For those who missed it: Ashley Todd is a 20-year-old Texan, a member of the College Republican National Committee, and a McCain campaign volunteer.... Continue Reading →
The Georgia Bigfoot body has joined the ranks of the Minnesota Iceman and the "frozen burrito ET": A childishly executed hoax. For the two or three people who were fortunate enough to miss this: Back in July, two young men from Georgia announced via YouTube, their website (bigfoottracker.com), and their local newspaper (The Clayton Times... Continue Reading →
How did one Canadian journalist become the peace broker betweeen 10,000 rich white dudes and 6 million pissed-off Asians? Well, it involves Japanese finance, Nikola Tesla, and liver pills... Until 2005 Benjamin Fulford was a Tokyo-based correspondent with Forbes magazine, writing articles on Asian finance. Then, he says, he quit in protest after the magazine... Continue Reading →
I had my suspicions about the alleged Pregnancy Pact. This is what I wrote about it on another blog on June 21, as part of my review of Juno: "And speaking of pregnant teenagers, this is total b.s. Sh**, in high school my girlfriends and I couldn't even agree on which movie to see. No... Continue Reading →
The other day, an elderly gentleman soberly informed me that Obama will be the next President of the United States. Not because he's the best candidate or even because he's getting the most votes, but because Dick Cheney is going to make sure it happens that way. Why? Well, around Christmas last year the choir... Continue Reading →
This month, over 400 infants, children, and teens were removed from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community in Eldorado, Texas, by Child Protective Services. There had been reports of underaged girls being forced to marry much older men. Specifically, a 16-year-old girl named Sarah phoned a Texas women's shelter to report that she was... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 