Todd Hayen on letting go of dogmatic thinking

⚠️ This was recorded for my UK Column show. Please keep us independent by supporting us.Jerm and Todd Hayen, a psychotherapist and author known for his alternative takes on psychology and societal manipulation, explore the complexities of truth, the grip of dogma, and the psychological underpinnings of belief. They discuss how firsthand experiences shape perceptions, the way consumer culture distracts from deeper realities, and the hurdles created by propaganda. The chat also covers historical leaders, cultural viewpoints, and the essence of empathy in grasping truth, ultimately stressing the need for nuance and open-mindedness in a polarised world riddled with controlled narratives.Todd's Substack: https://www.shrewviews.com📺 Watch video episode at UK Column

⚠️ This episode was recorded for UK Column. Please help us remain independent by supporting us.Jerm and Pepe Escobar, a veteran Brazilian journalist renowned for exposing the shadowy underbelly of global power structures, convened in a cafe within the Old City of Kashgar. Pepe elaborated on his 40-year career in on-the-ground journalism—from navigating conflict zones to revealing concealed geopolitical machinations—emphasising that authentic understanding arises from direct immersion, unlike the majority who now rely on remote, filtered data streams controlled by entrenched interests. He examined the ascendant influence of China and Central Asia, Russia's calculated manoeuvres against Western hegemony, the BRICS coalition as a subtle insurgency against dollar dominance, the Belt and Road Initiative forging alternative trade corridors to evade imperial constraints, and the impending disintegration of the West's faltering edifice, engineered by elite factions clinging to fading control in an emerging multipolar order.📺 Watch video episode at ukcolumn.org

🕰️ This was recorded in early 2022.Aleksandr Dugin is a Russian philosopher and political theorist who has shaped modern geopolitical thought.He is often labelled as "Putin's brain" because, through what he calls The Fourth Political Theory, he has significantly influenced Russian politics, shaped the worldview of Russian elites and provided intellectual grounding for actions like the "invasion" of Ukraine.Aleksandr (yes, with that spelling) is best known for promoting something called Eurasianism which is, basically, a vision of a unified cultural and political bloc to counter Western influence and preserve what it means to be Russian (and, by extension, European).📺 Watch video episode

🕰️ This episode was recorded in 2021.Daron Acemoglu co-authored a book that analyses the various factors leading to failed states. As I live in Africa, this is particularly relevant to me.Almost every country on the continent could be labelled a 'failed state' and it’s something I’ve often thought about. Is it because Black people can’t govern effectively? If so, what about the North African countries governed by Arabs?I don't know but it's probably more nuanced.And it is, say Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson who authored Why Nations Fail.Daron is a professor at MIT and James is a professor at the University of Chicago. Both received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.📺 Watch the video episode

🕰️ I recorded this in early 2022.David Cole is an American filmmaker with a Jewish background, making his work on the Holocaust incredibly controversial.More specifically, I'm referring to his 1992 documentary David Cole in Auschwitz.After releasing it, David faced severe hatred and death threats, particularly from the Jewish Defence League, a group that ironically did not protect him despite his Jewish identity. The pressure was so extreme that he changed his name to David Stein, going into hiding to escape being killed.📺 Watch the video episode

🕰️ This episode was recorded in early 2024.Sunlight is critical to happiness and good health, which is why the establishment wants everyone to fear the sun.Zaid K Dahhaj is a health coach and speaker who passionately advocates for the benefits of sunshine in improving overall well-being.He discussed the importance of sunlight for physical and mental health. He also delved into scientific explanations, covering:circadian rhythm and going to bed at the most optimal timedifferences between LED and incandescent lightsfull-light spectrum being criticalnegative filtering effects of windowsuse of sunscreen and why it's toxicunnecessary fears about skin cancer and how to avoid it📺 Watch the video episode

🕰️ This episode was recorded in early 2020.Susan Crockford argues that polar bears are neither in decline nor negatively affected by climate change, as we've been led to believe.While I love David Attenborough's narration, I don't love his global warming fearmongering. He has been completely taken by the climate change propaganda, probably because it pays the bills.I mean, I don't think he genuinely believes all that nonsense.I don't know anybody who actually believes that humans are warming up Earth.The difference between a Jehovah's Witness and a climate change alarmist is that the one gets every doomsday prediction wrong, and the other is a Jehovah's Witness.📺 Watch the video episode

⚠️ This is a slideshow, so I strongly recommend watching the video episode.Jamie Andrews and his colleagues have shown that viruses probably don't exist, or if they do, they’re not what we believe them to be..The Substack The Virology Controls Studies Project by Jamie Andrews challenges virology and genetic science. It aims to prove virology is flawed through simple control experiments.His team's control studies are simple experiments designed to test virology's claims by comparing samples that should show a virus with ones that shouldn't.For example, they use cell cultures with and without supposed viral material to see if they behave differently, like showing cell damage (cytopathic effects). They also run PCR tests on samples with no virus to check if they still give false positives.The conclusion is that virologists' methods are unreliable because the results often look the same whether a virus is present or not.📺 Watch video episode

🕰️ I recorded this episode in October 2023.Brittni De La Mora, previously known as Jenna Presley, was a top-tier porn star for seven years, 'starring' in over 250 films.Growing up in a troubled home, she turned to stripping and pornography at 18 to find validation (which seems to be a common theme). Her life spiralled with drug addiction and trauma, including witnessing her boyfriend’s murder.In 2012, while reading a Bible that she was given on a flight, she felt a spiritual calling to leave the industry. She quit that day, embraced Christianity, and began attending church.Now married to pastor Richard De La Mora, she co-leads Love Always Ministries, helping girls exit the porn industry, and promotes a life of purity.📺 Watch video episode

🕰️ This episode was recorded in early 2024.It sounds crazy, but Mark Conlon makes a persuasive argument that we didn't see what we think we saw.Like many of us, I've had numerous conversations about what happened on 9/11 and am still not entirely sure what exactly occurred. After all, other than the Covid scam, it’s one of the biggest events in my lifetime.Actually, I would argue that the Covid scam was the biggest event in recent history, although 9/11 is certainly a close contender. (When last was most of the world locked down? Not even during WW2.)That being said, the official 9/11 story is very obviously nonense.Mark is one of the few people I’ve come across who has deeply investigated the narrative surrounding the Twin Towers and, more specifically, he argues that neither of the two Boeing 767s crashed into the towers.I strongly recommend going through his website.Understandably, nobody wants to ask questions for fear of being labelled a clown. I mean, we all saw the planes fly into the Twin Towers.Or did we?📺 Watch video episode