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I don't get how astrologers can be flat-earthers. Has there been a program addressing that?

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they can be FErs if they don't understand the chart.

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Great segment of "Sixties"recall by Daniel and your own indirect participation via SUNY Buffalo "Sixties" veterans whom you encountered in the '80s. Lots of memories for me, both as an observer/antagonist up to May '70, then a sympathetic observer for a few months, and then a personal cultural revolution in Sept '70 which rendered me a participant, catching the last few years of the whole thing, very volatile in Berkeley where i was by then.

Ironic how Daniel picked Naomi Wolf as someone who was alienated from the left due to its gross cooperation with Operation "Pandemic." She ended up a trenchant supporter of RFK Jr, a VPAC hardliner (as is Wolf), espousing the idea that "we" drifted from God's commandments and are being punished for doing so, and an all-out Zionist backer of the Israeli genocide.

The transient nature of the "Sixties" was NOT the result of a Straussian generational shift, but of a state operation, the original COINTELPRO. Deliberate repression combined with cooptation of those who could be bought off, exhaustion, and an economic crackdown, making it very hard to survive outside the control system.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn’t happen? Then why did so many Japanese people

Have radiation poisoning and for years forward have high rates of cancer

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this theory has to be investigated by trustworthy people. I didn't say they didn't happen; I said I could live with such a scenario — that the bomb exists and is (or was) not portable. I gave the example of Ivy Mike. There has been a LOT of discussion of this issue the past five years. some is trustworthy, some is not. Radiation sickness could be induced by including a radioactive "dirty bomb" — that is, uranium — in the claimed TNT bomb.

This is the first claimed hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike#/media/File:Ivy_Mike_Sausage_device.jpg

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Implausible. A "dirty bomb" would not have created large radioactive zone such as the Utah-Nevada "downwind" zone, or many Pacific islands.

Edit to add: here is a video of a nuclear artillery shell in action.

https://www.military.com/video/nuclear-weapons/nuclear-bombs/m65-nuclear-artillery-test/4841436936001

Numerous people who lived through Hiroshima or Nagasaki reported seeing phenomena which would coincide with mass release of X rays. "Dirty" bombs or mustard gas or fire bombs simply don't do that. Sure, tens of thousands of people could all be lying. What are the odds of them having the same unusual stories?

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Thanks for the reply. On another note, loved, loved, loved your conversation with Daniel Giamario

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Impossible to explain without the nuclear explosions. Too many people in Japan went through the experience. This historical revisionism is totally irrational.

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