We profile Paul Joseph Watson, a box-headed far-right conspiracist who’s been longtime collaborator of Alex Jones — eventually co-founding an outlet with him: Prison Planet.

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Episode written by Annie Kelly. Music by Max Weber. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 192: Paul Joseph Watson with Annie Kelly

MIT professor Nicolas Cage ushers in the apocalypse. This time with numerology, scenes of horrifying carnage, a time capsule, goth children, and aliens/angels that look straight out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This Jake movie is everything-pilled.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Premium Episode 176: Knowing (2009) Movie Night (Sample)

The mysterious monument known as the Georgia Guidestones — "America's Stonehenge" — was recently destroyed. We cover how it was built in 1980 on a grazing pasture, why it created controversy, and its eventual bombing. Then we broach Bobby Crimo III, the recent mass shooter in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. To help us understand his digital footprint, we speak to Emmi Conley, an independent researcher of far-right extremist movements, digital propaganda and online subcultures. She discusses "schizoposting", "gore" forums and what happens when white supremacist ideology isn't a straightforward key to understanding a mass shooter's actions.

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Episode 195: Georgia Guidestones & Schizoposting feat Emmi Conley

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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Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe & Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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

Translating Q drops, organizing "stop the steal" rallies, forming splinter cults, and worshiping Michael Flynn. It looks like Japan has quite an assortment of Q followers. To help us figure them out, we interviewed Sarah Hightower, an independent cult and extremism researcher with a focus on Japan.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 196: QAnon International: Japan feat Sarah Hightower

"Elite Gender Inverts" are the shadowy cabal in this conspiracy theory, which posits that every famous person was secretly assigned the opposite gender at birth. No surprises here, Alex Jones and various QAnon promoters are on board with it. But there's also a whole community of people investigating this stuff every day online, using getty images and child-like diagrams. Jane Ost of the Batting Around podcast guest wrote the episode.

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Premium Episode 179: Tranvestigation feat Jane Ost (Sample)

The self-proclaimed Queen of Canada is expanding her reach and emptying the pockets of her cult followers. Recently they even tried to arrest an entire police precinct. Our guest Mack Lamoureux from Vice has been covering her for years and joins us to explain the latest developments.

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Premium Episode 182: Romana Didulo, QAnon Queen of the World feat Mack Lamoureux (Sample)

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This week's episode includes the first entry in Jake's trilogy we will be performing live on our tour dates! Title: In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Marjorie Taylor Scream. Make sure you listen before experiencing #2 at the above listed dates.

Also in this episode: Liv has brought us tales of the fascist LARP known as the "Valkist Party" in Roblox, a game for children.

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Premium Episode 186: Roblox Nazis & Xenomorphs (Sample)

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Annie Kelly heads to London to check on the dregs of the anti-lockdown protests that are still carrying on about a pile of conspiracy theories. Deeper structural problems reveal themselves through the continued social movements surrounding covid-skepticism.

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Premium Episode 187: Attending UK Anti-lockdown Protests with Annie Kelly (Sample)

The sequel to 'In Space, No One Can Hear You Marjorie Taylor Scream' is here. It's the Jake story everyone's talking about (as seen on the second leg of our tour). Plus, we explore a wild conspiracy theory tying James Cameron to the Freemasons and MK-ULTRA.

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Premium Episode 189: James Cameron Conspiracy Theory & Xenomorphs Return (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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