I think the “Pimary Water” explanation seems real. The opponents, the SCIENTISTS, are not willing to let Primary Water be proven.
It is political and a power structure. And it also would be a problem for them because it also points to God and His unlimited provision for mankind.
————-and “THEY” do not want any proof of a ONE true God to be found out by the human population. Unlimited water would change the world for the better and they need to keep that from ever being found to be TRUE.
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Same “THEY” that insist you vaccinate.
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Arizona's water future: Colorado River cuts
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Arizona is facing some of its deepest water cuts with 31% over the next two years. To speak on the impacts of this, expert Sarah Porter joins Mark Curtis
Published: 8:53 AM PST November 17, 2022
Updated: 6:20 AM PST January 31, 2023
ARIZONA
WATER WARS
Water conspiracy theories are coming to Arizona. Here's why experts say they will flood the state with lies
Researchers who study conspiracy theories said Arizona is ripe for new water-based misinformation to spread as the Southwest U.S. water crisis worsens.
ARIZONA, USA — The driest grounds California ever experienced were perfectly fertile for conspiracy theories.
The state was in the midst of its worst water crisis in over 1,200 years during a mid-2010s drought. California's governor, in response, put a mandatory 25% water cut across the board, affecting countless residents. Farmers were fighting farmers after pumping restrictions were placed on rivers and groundwater. Fishers protested after officials banned the practice in the name of conservation.
Fear, anger and conspiracy beliefs were flowing in California when water wasn't. The debunked "chemtrail" conspiracy theory was searched more in the state, and the nation as a whole, during the midst of the water cuts when compared to any other time before or after, Google Trends data shows.
Arizona may be headed in the same direction.
Researchers who study conspiracy theories said the state is ripe for new water-based misinformation to spread as the Southwest U.S. water crisis worsens. Those researchers also said understanding three reasons behind why the beliefs spread may be the key to preventing them.
Theories about "unlimited water" are, slowly, making their way from the fringes of the Internet to more prominent places on social media. Here's how experts say officials can stop the lies from flowing.
RELATED: Verify: No, there is no secret chemtrail spraying program.
1) "Conspiracy thrives in uncertainty"
Saying Arizona water rights are complicated is an understatement.
The "mind-numbing" nature of water law, a lengthy history of complex legal agreements and disputes, and thousands of wells and pumping stations with different regulations turn every drop of Arizona's water into a multi-group collaboration.
Water officials know how elaborate the state's water system is. The Arizona Department of Water Resources's website said "nothing is more complicated than water."
"Water is a very complex, adaptive system and it's hard to understand," Kyl Center for Water Policy Director Sarah Porter said. "The misunderstanding has to do with people not having a chance to learn all the intricacies of the complex system."
But, researchers say the void that misunderstanding creates can be filled by the more dramatic and digestible stories that conspiracy theories offer.
"Conspiratorial explanations work because they can tell a coherent story… in spaces where reality is too complex to build a good story," ASU researcher Anna Muldoon said.
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Muldoon's current focus is conspiracy, misinformation, and apocalypticism around infectious disease outbreaks like COVID-19. But, she recently fell down the rabbit hole of looking into utopian water conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories were given an easy way into the mainstream thanks to the chaos and lack of information during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Muldoon said. A systemic lack of public health policies is what allowed COVID-19 to spread into a global endemic. Conspiracy theories, however, told a much simpler story of there being one person or one group of people controlling the virus in the shadows.
RELATED: VERIFY: Here's the real story behind the '322 COVID conspiracy'
There are similar trends happening in the budding water conspiracy theories surrounding the Southwest's megadrought. The theories point to one simple solution to Arizona's water crisis, and are often much more appealing than the real, but complex, issues surrounding the state's water supply.
"Frankly, everyday people couldn't care less about how water gets into their taps…until it stops," said Kristy Roschke, a media literacy expert and managing director of the News Co/Lab at ASU.
"Then, all of a sudden, we need to learn why and how the water is getting cut. This process of trying to make sense of complicated things in a complicated world, with special interests and a lot of obscuring of knowledge…is the primary pursuit of most people."
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Roschke is currently teaching a class on misinformation to prepare students to fight against it as it evolves. In a world where misinformation is becoming more difficult to spot, she sees conspiracy theories being more than just some people believing wacky things.
"It's a disservice to segment a whole population and say 'What's wrong with them? Why can't they understand this is a conspiracy theory?'. Even if the belief isn't logical, believing in a conspiracy theory is a real response to the complicated times we live in."
That's a signal for Muldoon that water experts need to not only continue being truthful, but also need to get rid of the jargon and technical terms when delivering updates to the public on the water crisis. As long as conspiracies provide better stories, they will win out.
"Conspiracy thrives in uncertainty," Muldoon said. "If we could build better stories about what's real, we'd have an easier time cutting off the conspiratorial explanations."
2) As distrust rises, so do conspiracy beliefs
It's unreasonable to expect people who don't have years of experience in Arizona water policy to have the resources or time to learn the intricacies of how water works in the state.
Elected water officials and water researchers have historically been the ones people turn to for the most accurate information.
But, what happens when trust in the experts goes away?
Distrust in government, mainstream media and/or accredited researchers is a common trait among conspiracy believers. A study looking into the beliefs and worldviews of people who believe in the "chemtrail" conspiracy theory found people used the belief as a piece of supporting evidence for their larger ideas around society.
RELATED: Verify: No, there is no secret chemtrail spraying program
The distrust towards authority mostly comes from past experiences, including witnessing corruption or dysfunction in local government, disagreements on how national governments have handled situations historically and family members' own distrust.
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A good story alone isn't what makes conspiracy theories spread like wildfire. When someone is wronged or harmed by the actions of official sources, they become more susceptible to buying into false beliefs.
"Yes, it's necessary for people to be exposed to information in order to start believing in the conspiracy theory, but it doesn't work alone," co-author of the chemtrail belief study, Sijia Xiao, said. "When people interpret the information, it's always within their existing beliefs and worldviews."
That distrust may worsen in Arizona as more at-risk and impoverished communities are harmed by water cuts.
Upcoming restrictions in the state's water supply and water deliveries are expected to hit farmers, and their rural communities' economies, the hardest.
"The biggest impacts of water cuts will probably be felt by Arizona's rural communities," Porter said. "A large cut in water could mean a big cut in economic activity. There are ramifications for the whole community because there's less employment, there's less money to spend, and food prices see increases."
RELATED: No more winter vegetables? Upcoming Yuma water cuts to threaten entire US food system, experts say
If conditions continue to worsen and further water cuts are implemented, research shows minimizing harm among the people most affected by the cuts should be officials' top priority.
When more people are harmed, feelings of distrust rise and clear the way for conspiracy beliefs to fester. When the conspiracy takes hold and people do believe there are false simple solutions to complex issues, the believers feel they have a moral obligation to spread the theory to as many people as they can.
If you thought what you knew could save the world, wouldn't you do the same?
3) When grifting turns into proselytizing
The water conspiracy theory gaining the most traction in Arizona is a perfect example of the "simple solution" trend that these conspiracies share, and it's gaining influence.
First off, here's what is true.
The way water works on the Earth's surface is known as the rain cycle. Water evaporates from the planet's oceans, lakes and rivers, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into clouds, which then falls back to Earth as either rain or snow.
Arizona has an immense amount of groundwater beneath the surface, but it acts a bit differently than surface water replenished by the rain cycle. The Valley is known for its arid climate, so aquifers are hardly ever replenished by rain.
The vast majority of water in aquifers across the state can be described as "old savings," with the average water age being around 10,000 years old.
While aquifers are artificially replenished today by cities and businesses, research shows the last time aquifers were majorly replenished was during the last ice age, when large amounts of ice melted and seeped into the ground.
Now, the misinformation.
A Scottsdale resident named Matt has gotten millions of views and over 100,000 followers spreading the theory on TikTok. We reached out to Matt multiple times for comment, but he never responded.
Matt has been sharing a conspiracy theory that claims the Earth naturally creates an endless supply of clean water underground that can be easily reached by humans. Matt also claims the government and mainstream media don't want people to know about the water source so they can "control" the population.
He's not the only one sharing the conspiracy theory. Numerous "institutes" online are also spreading misinformation.
There are numerous falsehoods in this claim.
The first false claim: No, Earth does not naturally regenerate water underground. Modern hydrologists agree that there is a large amount of groundwater throughout the Earth. Hydrologists have also found that groundwater is recycled water from the surface that has ended up underground due to shifting plate tectonics throughout Earth's 4.6 billion-year history.
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Additionally, there are countless examples of groundwater being used faster than it can be naturally replenished, indicating that the Earth doesn't create the resource out of thin air.
The second false claim: No, much of the water underground is not readily fit for human consumption. A great deal of water pumped from underground needs to be treated before being used by humans due to having too high of mineral content or having naturally occurring contaminants.
The third false claim: No, a large portion of groundwater can't be reached by humans easily. Groundwater can be found up to 30,000 feet underground, and with wells on average costing around $20-$44 per foot in Arizona, the price can start adding up.
The situation gets worse as groundwater is used faster than it is replenished. As underground water levels get lower, the sediment and rock that has to be drilled through get deeper and tougher, further increasing drilling costs.
Even though Matt has created a large following by pushing this conspiracy theory and others online, Muldoon is hesitant to label him as a "bad actor," or someone knowingly pushing false information for their own gain.
"These are people that have bought into stories that make more sense to them than crisis," Muldoon said. "I'm not sure that most of these believers are bad actors because they can't possibly make enough money off of it. They sell everything they own and move to lakes in California that are supposedly the best spot to get to this water. The people who push QAnon make so much money. But these water conspiracy theorists are so committed and so obscure, I think they really believe it."
Once this kind of utopian water conspiracy belief takes hold, the people who have bought into it feel a moral obligation to spread what they see as "the answer" to as many people as possible.
Muldoon found there is already a group of people who believe in this conspiracy and have a utopian vision of the water crisis ending if the government would spread this information. As the crisis worsens, she expects the belief to get more popular.
"Because we're in this moment of fear, it's spreading," Muldoon said. "The conspiracy belief is a real response to this fear, uncertainty and constant anxiety people have about whether we're going to have water."
Roschke knows there are difficult decisions coming in Arizona's water crisis, whether that be how much water to cut or who gets hit the hardest. But, she said government officials, researchers and journalists need to be prepared to deal with the rising tide of water conspiracy theories as those decisions are made.
"If the folks in charge of helping society aren't prepared with compelling, credible, easily-digestible information…that's on the experts," Roschke said. "We've seen the failure of public health officials, federal government officials and local officials during COVID in handling conspiracy theories. We're going to see this again and again if the officials aren't equipped to compete."
Water Wars
Water levels are dwindling across the Southwest as the megadrought continues. Here's how Arizona and local communities are being affected.
THINK about what is going on.
Arizona has this water shit going on RIGHT NOW, but is building massive data centers and tech.
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Arizona has roughly 98 to 113 operational data centers, with another 39 to 86 facilities planned or under construction.📊 Arizona Data Center BreakdownOperational: ~98 to 113 currently active facilities.Under Construction: ~10 to 15 active builds.Planned/Proposed: ~39 to 86 future projects driven by AI and cloud demand.Primary Hub: Most centers concentrate heavily in Maricopa County (Phoenix, Mesa, Goodyear, and Buckeye).Would you like information on:Water and power usage concerns in Arizona?Major tech operators (like Microsoft or EdgeCore) in the state?
https://youtu.be/wgLbOAddgn8
Paradise Valley's $20M Mansions Are Running Out of Water — And Nobody Can Fix It
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Water scarcity in Arizona is threatening even the most affluent communities. Learn how the Colorado River crisis impacts local infrastructure and future water access.
This video examines the critical state of the Arizona water supply as reservoir levels continue to drop. We break down the official management projections for 2026 and what the upcoming water reduction schedules mean for residents living in high-value areas. If you are concerned about how regional drought policies are shifting, this analysis clarifies the timeline of these cuts.
We also look at the infrastructure challenges facing the state, specifically the growing reliance on private wells as public systems face increased pressure. By examining the current data on the Colorado River, viewers will understand the reality of long-term sustainability in the desert. This overview provides a clear picture of the management strategies being implemented to handle the ongoing shortage.
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All where water is a problem THEY say, but tell us PRIMARY WATER is a hoax and will not let it be proven true, but are taking all the water and blaming nature while building major water sucks all throughout Maricopa County for Data Centers.
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE,,,,
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Normal people will pay the price, but bug tech wil benefit and ruin the living spaces.
NO ONE WANTS ALL THIS SHIT.
WHY NOY TRY THE PRIMARY WATER THEORY ON A HIGE SCALE…..?????
POWER, that is why.
Control over people is why.
Money is why.
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59 Data Centers Coming to Phoenix - Everyone Talks About the Water, Nobody's Talking About Your Home
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Thinking about buying a home in Arizona? Download my free guide covering water, insurance, future growth, hidden costs, and more.
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Phoenix just became ground zero for one of the biggest data center buildouts in American history. 59 new facilities. Billions in investment. And nobody is talking about what it actually means for the people who live here.
I've spent the last several weeks pulling the data on what happens to home values, water infrastructure, and neighborhood heat levels when industrial-scale computing moves into a residential metro. The results are not what the economic development press releases are telling you.
As more facilities move into Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Gilbert, and surrounding communities, questions are emerging about water resources, heat island effects, rezoning, and potential impacts on nearby home values.
In this video, you'll learn:
● Why data centers are rapidly expanding across Arizona
● The connection between data centers and water usage
● How heat island effects may impact nearby neighborhoods
● What homeowners should know about future resale value
● Why some communities may benefit while others face challenges
● How buyers and investors can identify opportunities before the market reacts
This isn't about fear. It's about understanding the local factors that could influence Phoenix real estate over the next several years.
If you're considering buying, selling, or moving to Scottsdale, Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, or anywhere in the Valley, this is information worth understanding.
>>25063684 Primary Water probably IS REAL.
But would ruin the power structure over humans.
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2 months ago
That's the problem when we have a corrupt governor, a corrupt state legislature, and corrupt Maricopa county planning, that have received their kickbacks, and lined their pockets knowing full well that Arizona cannot tolerate such a wasteful loss of a water supply!!! Direct your anger and blame where it should be directed!!! At this corrupt state and county government!!
KATIE HOBBS
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2 months ago
As an Arizonan, I didn't ask for this.
Nobody did.
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I understand your perspective, but if you use AI, like we all do, your consumption asked for it.. and it's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as growth is managed keeping the average homeowner and business in mind, it brings a lot of business to the Phoenix Metro. They are already developing cooling systems that use much less water, we just have to be vigilant until they become the norm. the key is being aware of what's happening and protecting your property and neighborhood.. Thank you for your comment.
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@SkylarT-l5u
2 months ago
Wow! I grew up without the internet, only landline phone, amazingly, I survived somehow lol….but I'd hate to think that I'm so superficial, that I couldn't survive without technology lol
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@genieglander4083
2 months ago
@l@livinglifeinscottsdalearizona data centers don’t have to be in the desert. We have a worldwide web, they could literally be anywhere else. Also we didn’t ask for AI either.
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@livinglifeinscottsdalearizonaI didn't ask for AI, nor do I use it. We li be in a desert, it should stay that way NOT build out in nature and where wildlife is. Plus we were always told NOT to waste water but that's exactly what data centers are doing
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Yep. No one campaigned on building AI data centers. These wealthy and disconnected politicians don't give a rats ass about residents having jobs. They damn well know what will be the end result when unemployment hits 33%.
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How can yhey be approved in a place where we don't have the water!
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@justthinking526
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Political greed
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@Want2cJesus
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They plan on massively reducing the population!
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I didn’t vote for this and We don’t have the water for this. The flock cameras are bad enough. Every time I turn around now, corporate American is telling me to bend over and take it. How can they get away with this in a country with a constitution that is for the people and by the people? Wake up people, they are squeezing us out and we will get nothing. That is the opposite of a republic.
They Shipped Our Water to Saudi Cattle & Now the Arizona Ground Is Tearing and Sinking
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Arizona families are told to shorten showers and rip out lawns. But while you conserved, a Saudi-owned farm pumped enough Arizona groundwater in ONE YEAR to supply 93,000 homes — and shipped it overseas as hay. That water is gone. And now the ground above those aquifers is sinking, cracking, and failing.
In this video I break down what 31,196 acre-feet of pumping actually did to the desert floor, why the Ranegras Plain has sunk nearly 16 inches, how 200 miles of earth fissures and 3,000+ square miles of subsidence are expanding toward Phoenix, and what it means for your home's value, financeability, and safety — even if you don't live near a farm.
This isn't just a rural problem anymore.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
• How 93,000 homes worth of water left Arizona in one year
• Why sinking ground and earth fissures are permanent
• Where subsidence is showing up around Phoenix and Tucson
• What every buyer and homeowner should check before you buy or sell
I’ve been in the Phoenix market 17 years — I’ll show you what questions to ask so you don’t buy a hidden problem.
Zactly
Jillian Michaels
is Jewish on her mothers side.
Her name is fake also.
Jillian Michaels' real last name is McKarus (her full birth name is Jillian Leigh McKarus).
Family BackgroundMother's Side: Her mother, JoAnn, is Jewish (her maternal grandmother was born in England to a Russian Jewish father and an Austrian Jewish mother).Father's Side: Her father, Douglas McKarus, is of Syrian and Lebanese descent.
And she is a lesbian.
Last name is really McKanus.
Rough last name.
Mc ANUS
Kek
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Conspiratorial explanations work because they can tell a coherent story… in spaces where reality is too complex to build a good story," ASU researcher Anna Muldoon said.
same lady believed and pushed the covid hoax
Muldoon's current focus is conspiracy, misinformation, and apocalypticism around infectious disease outbreaks like COVID-19. But, she recently fell down the rabbit hole of looking into utopian water conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories were given an easy way into the mainstream thanks to the chaos and lack of information during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Muldoon said. A systemic lack of public health policies is what allowed COVID-19 to spread into a global endemic. Conspiracy theories, however, told a much simpler story of there being one person or one group of people controlling the virus in the shadows.
Roschke is currently teaching a class on misinformation to prepare students to fight against it as it evolves. In a world where misinformation is becoming more difficult to spot, she sees conspiracy theories being more than just some people believing wacky things.
These are people that have bought into stories that make more sense to them than crisis," Muldoon said. "I'm not sure that most of these believers are bad actors because they can't possibly make enough money off of it. They sell everything they own and move to lakes in California that are supposedly the best spot to get to this water.The people who push QAnonmake so much money. But these water conspiracy theorists are so committed and so obscure, I think they really believe it."
A conspiracy theory that claims the Earth naturally creates an endless supply of clean water underground that can be easily reached by humans. Matt also claims the government and mainstream media don't want people to know about the water source so they can "control" the population.
It's a disservice to segment a whole population and say 'What's wrong with them? Why can't they understand this is a conspiracy theory?'. Even if the belief isn't logical, believing in a conspiracy theory is a real response to the complicated times we live in."
Anna Muldoon.
Covid Hoaxer, anti-Qanon researcher, says PRIMARY WATER is a hoax.
OK.
She should be trusted. OK
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WATER WARS
Water conspiracy theories are coming to Arizona. Here's why experts say they will flood the state with lies
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/arizona-drought-water-conspiracy-theories-how-to-stop-them/75-50988a0d-bce0-421c-b85a-d46b44fa7380
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Anna Muldoon is a co-author of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas and a former Science Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services. She holds a Masters in Public Health degree from George Washington University and is currently a Ph.D. student in the School for the Future of Innovation and Society at ASU.
Anna Muldoon is a public health researcher, former federal science policy advisor, and Ph.D. scholar at Arizona State University (ASU).Background and ExpertiseRole at ASU: A researcher and Ph.D. student within the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks, misinformation, and social crises.COVID-19 Response: Worked with ASU's Biodesign Institute Modeling Emerging Threats for Arizona (METAz) workgroup to track and analyze pandemic data and messaging.Prior Government Experience: Served as a Science Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).Education: Earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) from George Washington University.Notable WorkCo-Author: Helped write the book COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas.Media & Research Commentary: Frequently cited as an expert on public health communications, tackling topics like stigma during disease outbreaks, vaccine hesitancy, and how rumors spread on social media.
https://thebulletin.org/biography/anna-muldoon/
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Articles by Anna Muldoon
Wuhan Institute of Virology
COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Gain-of-function is a hot topic, but a bad explanation
By Nicholas G. Evans, Anna Muldoon | Disruptive Technologies
By Nicholas G. Evans, Anna Muldoon | Analysis | August 9, 2021
https://thebulletin.org/biography/anna-muldoon/
https://thebulletin.org/biography/anna-muldoon/
Anna Muldoon is a co-author of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories:
QAnon,
5G,
the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas and
a former Science Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
at the Department of Health and Human Services
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https://trgenovese.github.io/buylemons/
This lady and everything about her makes me sure that PRIMARY WATER IS REAL.
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A Conspiracy Theory Cornucopia for Covid Times
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A Conspiracy Theory Cornucopia for Covid Times
The new book Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas by John Bodner, Wendy Welch and their co-authors, should come with a public health warning: “If you’re easily disturbed, proceed with caution!” As the title suggests, this is a book that dives into the dark recesses of modern society, where ideas that might seem laughable in the bright light of day take on boogeyman-like proportions. But unlike nightmares that dissolve on waking, the conspiracy theories explore here are very real, and present serious challenges to the collective process of building a safer, healthier and more sustainable future.
I’ve known that this book has been in the works for some time. Anna Muldoon — one of the book’s six co-authors — is a good friend and colleague, as well as being a leading expert on infectious diseases and conspiracy theories. She also happens to be a PhD student in the ASU College of Global Futures. And in talking with Anna over the past few months about covid, conspiracy theories and the book, I’ve been looking forward to getting my teeth into it.
A Conspiracy Theory Primer
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories is an impressively timely response to fears and ideas surrounding the coronavirus that seem to run counter to logic and reason, and that threaten to undermine efforts to deal with the virus. But more than this, the book is a highly readable and informed primer on the nature and history of conspiracy theories, and why they matter so much in today’s world.
Following an introduction to conspiracy theories, the book dives straight into ideas that quickly began gaining ground a year ago around the origins of what came to be know in some circles as the ‘Wuhan virus.” This is followed by a deeply informative flashback to conspiracy theories surrounding the Black Death, reminding us that, as a species, we seem to have a remarkable talent for weaving conspiracies around fear and catastrophe. This chapter also sets up narratives around white power which, it turns out, is deeply intertwined with evolution of conspiracy thinking. This feeds into the following chapter on Covid-19 and the black community, and thence to anti-vaccination (anti-vaxx) conspiracies.
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Bodner and his fellow authors repeat this pattern of historic context followed by present-day reality to great effect in the next two chapters, which first take us back to apocalyptic thinking and the New World Order of the 20th century, and then to the disturbing present-day realities of QAnon and Pizzagate. The chapters that come after these step back to look more broadly at how covid-related conspiracy theories tap into a much wider ecosystem of conspiracy theories, including fears over 5G phone networks, before ending on a more reflective note as the authors explore how to talk to friends, family and colleagues about beliefs that seem to run counter to common sense or evidence.
The result is a richly intertwined tapestry of expertise and insights into the nature and seriousness of conspiracy theories, and how they are coalescing and evolving around the current pandemic and attempts to combat it.
Mapping the Conspiracy Theory Landscape
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For a book that has six co-authors, Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories is a coherent and compelling read. Not only can you not tell where one author ends and another begins, but you quickly realize that this is far less relevant than the stories being told. These stories are at times disturbing, and at others disturbingly amusing (Bill Gates for example has one of the largest listings in the index, and one that ends with “see also Antichrist, mark of the beast …” This, I must confess, amused me in a macabre way).
More importantly, the book is an informed tour de force covering trends, movements and behaviors associated with conspiracy theories that directly impact how we think about and approach our collective global futures.
And this is where Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories is essential reading for anyone who’s serious about global futures. While it’s easy to characterize “informed” futures-thinking through rational behavior, science-driven solutions and saving the planet, these over-simplifications overlook the many roles that people — us, in other words — play in moulding, crafting, and ultimately defining the future. This is where it’s imperative that we collectively understand how potentially dangerous ideas can suck people in and sweep through society, while potentially robbing us of the futures we aspire to.
Here, using the pandemic as a focal point, Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories provides a startling and urgent perspective on the nature of conspiracy theories and the threats they present. This is a perspective that is informed by deep expertise, and yet one that is also modulated by empathy and self-awareness.
A Savvy but Sensitive Approach to Those Drawn In by Conspiracy Theories
It would be so very easy to write a book like this on conspiracy theories that depicts people who buy into them as crazy, cranks, or deeply delusional. I’m sure such a book would become a rallying point for self-proclaimed rational thinkers. It may even rise to the loft heights of a best-seller. But it would be disingenuous and phony — falling into the same self-righteous myopia and self-sustaining certainty that plagues the conspiracy theories it set out to debunk.
In contrast (and thankfully), Bodner, Welch, Brodie, Muldoon, Leech and Marshall take a very different approach. They recognize the seriousness of conspiracy theories and the threats they represent to society and the future. But they also recognize that we are all susceptible to being drawn in to these worlds.
As they write, “the painful truth is, most of us hold some conspiracy theories in our heads, and we think they are true conspiracy theories.” As a result, the book exhorts readers to be savvy but sensitive when approaching conspiracy theories, and those who become caught up in them.
As the authors consider how to respond to the challenges presented by conspiracy theories, they first ask readers to examine their own biases, values, and preferred narratives, and to be critical yet respectful of themselves as well as others in their lives. They likewise encourage readers to fact-check themselves.
Only then do they begin to explore how to talk with friends and family, colleagues, and others, about the conspiracies they hold as ground truth.
Informed Action
I suspect that most of us have at least one person in our lives that is drawn to conspiracy theories. And navigating this forms the focus of the last chapter in the book.
This is a chapter that resonated deeply with me-especially as someone who’s spent years working across groups and communities with very different ideas, values and beliefs. Here, the authors underline the importance of combining clarity of thought and self-reflection with empathy if we’re to rise above the ways in which conspiracy theories taint our visions of the future.
To me, this is one of the most important messages to come out of the book. Because make no mistake, for all our science, and all of our self-proclaimed rationality, we won’t succeed in building a more just, equitable and sustainable future unless we also understand who we are as builders of that future, and the conspiracy theories that we are all susceptible to.
“Covid-19 Conspiracy Thories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order, and Other Viral Ideas” is written by John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech and Ashley Marshall,ALL SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS
Mapping the Conspiracy Theory Landscape
> This chapter also sets up narratives around white power which, it turns out, is deeply intertwined with evolution of conspiracy thinking
Perhaps in 2027?
Not until he has the magic number?
78?
7+8=15….which boils to a 6
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John Podesta was born on January 8, 1949,
making him 77 years old.
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
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