The Null Device

The Council on Foreign Relations, the New York-based organisation that may or may not be part of the Illuminati's grip on world power, has just admitted its newest member, Angelina Jolie. The actress and celebrity, who adopted children from the developing world before it became trendy, joins the likes of Henry Kissinger, George Soros, Thomas "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" Friedman and most of the neocons behind the Bush administration, presumably in giant lizard form.

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Shamelessly plagiarised from Mind Hacks:

A list of delusions taken from the psychiatric literature that don't seem that delusional when you think about them:

• "The earth is doomed"
  - Patient with Alzheimer's reported by Sultzer et al. (2003)
• "Bill Gates is destroying my files and spying on me"
  - 32 year old patient reported by Podoll et al. (2000)
• "A local gang is going to mug me"
  - South London patient reported by Freeman et al. (2001)
• "I drove two people mad when I was 11 to 14 years old"
  - Patient from a study by Rhodes and Jakes (2000)
• "My thoughts are being controlled by TV newscasters"
  - Inpatient reported by Noffsinger and Saleh (2000)

To quote Salvador Dalí, "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad".

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