Podcast Share: Crackdown on the Crackpots

We’re liking this guy. His name is Tom Secker and he runs the Spy Culture blog. In this podcast – ClandesTime, Episode 055: Crackdown on the Crackpots – Tom gets it spot-on about Sabine McNeill (20:10), Chris Spivey et al, offers some great insights into the minds of the more extreme members of the conspiracy theorist world and isn’t without a wry sense of humour. I personally don’t agree with him on everything (supporting 7/7 conspiracy theories, endorsing that nutjob Thomas Sheridan etc.) but there are some very pertinent observations here…

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https://vimeo.com/135606956

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Like Keelan Balderson (whom he cites at one point and who has vouched for him), Tom an intelligent truther who has his feet on the ground and doesn’t appreciate those who don’t do their research, have their heads permanently in the clouds and give the rest of them a bad name. This is what Tom says about this podcast:

In this show I examine recent events in the alternative media, with the conviction of Chris Spivey and the arrest of an ‘activist’ at the centre of the Hampstead Hoax.  I discuss how conspiracy theorists often live up to the derogatory mainstream media stereotyping and ask how much is cause and how much is effect.  I address the media fakery sect and ask whether most of them are suffering from some kind of mental disorder, before rounding off by reading a recent email exchange.

By the way, we get a mention at 25:59 🙂

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Visit Tom’s Spy Culture blog at:

http://www.spyculture.com

And Keelan’s Wide Shut blog can be found here:

http://wideshut.co.uk

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