QAnon supporters, GOP operatives and people riled up by masks and vaccines. We explore the different factors behind the invasion of school board meetings, which have seen an increase of Americans yelling for 3-5 minutes about a variety of right wing grievances and conspiracy theories. Plus Jake brings us a very spooky story about using an inkjet printer: "Enemy of the Board".

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Episode 162: The Swarming of School Board Meetings

A bird's eye view of how the market-driven society has evolved into a potent catalyst for "disinformation" and conspiracy theories. This week’s guest is Marcus Gilroy-Ware, senior lecturer in digital journalism at the University of West England and the author of 2017’s 'Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media' and 2020’s ‘After The Fact: The Truth About Fake News’.

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Episode 173: The Disinformation Society w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware

Ron Watkins yells at the Scottsdale, Arizona, school board. Redpilled Canadian truckers head to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates. And Boris Johnson is probably a clone! A lot going on this week, with the whole gang getting together to cover these developments. The episode includes an interview with Haley from Arizona Right Wing Watch — who was kind enough to attend Ron Watkins's first congressional rally for us in Prescott, Arizona.

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Episode 177: Clone Convoy to Congress

Legends of inner earth cities, advanced denizens of long lost continents, monumental magical bell makers, and ascended masters. Mount Shasta, California is a sacred site to the indigenous communities in the area ranging back for thousands of years. It's also a hotspot of UFOs, Sasquatch, and portals to other dimensions, as well as the birthplace of the I AM cult. Our new inner earth correspondent Brad Abrahams brings us on a journey into Mount Shasta.

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Thanks to interviewee Bill Miesse (Historian and rare book dealer, creator of the Mount Shasta annotated bibliography which includes 2000 books)

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Episode 181: Journey Into Mount Shasta with Brad Abrahams

Vincent Fusca for Senate. Juan O Savin organizing a takeover of Secretary of State positions to affect upcoming elections. The two JFK Juniors are leaving very different marks on the United States, but both are getting electorally involved.

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Episode 182: A Tale Of Two JFK Juniors (2022 Election Edition)

From an "OK Groomer" meme on 4chan to mainstream republican talking point. We explore the right wing panic related to the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill passed by Governor Ron De Santis in Florida. We also head out into the field to attend the Sean-Feucht-led anti-LGBT hate rally in front of Disney Studios in Burbank, California on April 6th.

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Episode 185: Attending the Anti-LGBT Hate Rally at Disney Studios

What is a pookie? Jake and Liv inaugurate our first cross-generational exchange with this episode about a mid aughts child MMO bought by Disney — a game with the acronym "CP". Were you one of the penguins? Did you tip the iceberg on that day of reckoning when the servers shut down?

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Premium Episode 170: Club Penguin (Cursed Communities) Sample

2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories rebooted and remixed by Dinesh D'Souza. 2000 Mules is a "documentary" that garnered Dinesh praise from Donald Trump and caused a fight with Tucker Carlson's production team. We explore the extremely shoddy claims made in the movie.

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Episode 189: 2000 Mules Trampling Dinesh D'Souza

In the 1970s a new method of helping the poorest people in the world emerged: microlending. The idea is to give the very poorest people, those who live on less than two dollars per day, very small loans they can use to start businesses and serve their community. Thanks to the power of success stories and anecdotes of those helped by microlending, the idea caught on with philanthropists and governments in the west. The concept enjoyed the full throated endorsement of the Clintons, The Nobel Committee, the United Nations, and experts working in global development. But a dark side of microlending quickly emerged. Some loans came with unreasonably high interest rates. Certain microlending institutions harassed and threatened those who couldn’t pay.  Some of those who received small loans found themselves trapped in a debt spiral. The indebted even committed suicide to escape the loan. While this was going on, some owners of microfinance ventures profited to the tune of millions of dollars. In the 2010s, multiple studies began to discover that the benefits of microlending as a poverty cure were vastly oversold. Microloans could in fact improve a community’s economic base in certain situations. But they cannot and will not end poverty entirely, as its advocates claimed decades earlier.

How did the most powerful, wealthy, and influential people in the world buy into the exaggerated promises of microlending?

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REFERENCES 

Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther (2011) Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 

Bateman, Milford (2010) Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism

Edited by Bateman, Milford and  Maclean, Kate (2017) Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon

Collina, Daryl et al (2009) Portfolios of the Poor: How The World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day

Meyerowitz, Joanne (2021) A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

Rahman, Aminur (1999) Micro-credit Initiatives for Equitable and Sustainable Development: Who Pays? 
http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/!@$devo/Lecture%2006%20Microcredit/extra/RAHMAN,%20A.%20Micro-credit%20initiatives%20for%20equitable%20and%20sustainable%20development%20who%20pays.pdf

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Paul McCartney is dead. Or so believe a group of people who have been developing the idea since the late 60s. We explore how The Beatles’ rise to fame as a pop band was accompanied by conspiracy theories. Includes segments of an interview Annie conducted with Dr. Richard Mills at St. Mary’s University, London, an expert on The Beatles and author of 'The Beatles: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia'.

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Premium Episode 177: Paul Is Dead with Annie Kelly (Sample)

An alien abduction, mentions of the FBI and CIA, polygraph tests, and a feud with a skeptic. The story of Travis Walton is rolled up into a hybrid movie night episode by Jake Rockatansky. Walton's experiences were the basis for Fire In The Sky (1975).

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Premium Episode 181: Fire In This Guy (Sample)

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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