What Do the CIA, Soros Foundation and the Kremlin Have in Common?

January 5, 2019

None of them provides financial support to Of Two Minds.

It's probably not much of a surprise that once again Of Two Minds failed to secure funding from the CIA, the Soros Foundation, the Russians or indeed any heavyweight at all. The site’s sole sponsor, the Kroika Cookie and Biscuit Company, Ltd., is unfortunately a fictitious invention of mine . . .

Well, one look at my website will tell you it’s not quite up to corporate sponsorship standards. I can’t tell you much about my brand, except that it’s not approved by the Powers That Be, and it’s skeptical of whatever is currently accepted by the mainstream media as obvious.

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