{"id":2420,"date":"2009-06-21T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/06\/21\/scientific-conferences-tool-of-the-jewishmaverickynonviolentcia-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:25:57","slug":"scientific-conferences-tool-of-the-jewishmaverickynonviolentcia-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/scientific-conferences-tool-of-the-jewishmaverickynonviolentcia-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Conferences:  Tool of the Jewish\/Mavericky\/Nonviolent\/CIA Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another contender for Best Video of All Time.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/06\/what-the-hell-do-i-know.html\">hilzoy<\/a>, an Iranian-government propaganda video from a while back.  It reveals the secret (naturally) collaboration between John McCain, George Soros (&#8220;he uses his wealth and slogans like liberty, democracy, and human rights to bring supporters of America to power&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Sharp\">Gene Sharp<\/a>, and Bill Smith, aimed at undermining the true will of the Iranian people.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MmFlOTFmMTRkM2M1NTU3MDdhNmYyMDRlZjIzZTZmYzQ=\">Transcript<\/a>.)  I especially like the part where Smith says &#8220;we have achieved a lot through international scientific conferences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that Iranian security is using <em>1984<\/em> as a how-to guide.  Spying on your family as a social good.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Iran is no laughing matter; it remains to be seen whether Ayatollah Khamenei has painted himself into a corner where further large-scale violence is inevitable.  Our thoughts are with the Iranian people demanding their rights of self-government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another contender for Best Video of All Time. Via hilzoy, an Iranian-government propaganda video from a while back. It reveals the secret (naturally) collaboration between John McCain, George Soros (&#8220;he uses his wealth and slogans like liberty, democracy, and human rights to bring supporters of America to power&#8221;), Gene Sharp, and Bill Smith, aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}