Greg Palast Love Alex Jones

I started this blog last year planning to write about weird stuff and conspiracies. It's occured to me I could get this blog off the ground just by linking to analyses of Alex Jones' appearance (and meltdown) on Piers Morgan's show.

I came across Greg Palast recently through a documentary he did on George W. Bush and family. Some parts of it were good, others seemed like a hatchet job. I figured the guy was a leftist.

According to this article I saw on Prison Planet's Facebook feed, he is really into Alex Jones. It's apparently a 4 part series he's writing on Alex Jones, Piers Morgan, and something to do with his penis. I won't be covering that one.

Greg Palast makes this comment in his article, which starts out good, then turns into a subjective Alex Jones love fest:

The yell from Alex’s throat was not his own voice alone – it was the choric cry of his millions of listeners in the forgotten heartland of America. It was the scream of the screwed.

Not sure I buy that one. Alex Jones doesn't do a good job of representing his listeners when he just piles it on, screaming and pointing.

Or, looking at it another way, his listeners may love it. But it's not going to do a thing to convince Piers Morgan's listeners (all 3 of them) to look up Alex Jones and start listening.

Or maybe Alex's behavior does represent his listeners, which makes me glad I no longer am one.

He also recently said he's the "de-facto leader of the liberty movement". No doubt, a lot of Alex Jones' listeners are looking for a leader. But that's the thing with being liberty minded: you don't need a leader. A truly liberty minded man is capable of leading himself. But then, a lot of Alex's calls are for "just tell us what to do, man. What do we do?"

I have some better Alex Jones stuff I'll break out soon. 

This Makes Me Glad I Stopped Listening To Alex Jones...

I listened to Alex Jones faithfully every day for more than four years. Somewhere after the election, I had some hard choices to make in the realm of 3 hours podcasts, so I stopped listening to Alex. I had a few other reasons as well, but mostly it had to do with a lack of time to keep up. Other reasons are:

• His podcast is apparently sentient. Every single time I tried to do something that required my hands not being available to skip through commercials, the podcast cut to a commercial. 
• I got tired of hearing the same commercials every day year after year. I'd heard them all.
• I got tired of hearing about "Tangy Tangerine". 
• And finally, a radio show is a really poor format for a podcast. It might be fine on the radio, but the host has to waste a lot of time repeating information before and after each commercial break and at the top of the hour, plus the bumper music.

I also felt like I'd heard everything he had to say, one of my main reasons for unsubscribing from a podcast.

He was on Piers Morgan at some point in the last day or so. I have no love for Piers Morgan. I liked him well enough on The Apprentice, but I pay little attention to his CNN show. About the only time I listened in was when Adam Kokesh played the audio of Larry Pratt handing Piers Morgan his ass.

Then Alex Jones goes on Piers Morgan and steps off the reservation.

I'm not complaining about Alex's positions. I for the most part agree with him. His tactics, however, make us all look bad.



He breaks every rule in the book. He commits every debate fallacy imaginable. He attacks Piers Morgan with all his pent up frustration against the entire establishment. He won't answer a question. He keeps jumping tracks. Piers asks him about gun crime and he starts screaming about Building 7.

I think Larry Pratt handled Piers Mogan a lot better.


This is the one where Piers Morgan wouldn't answer a question, jumped around, talked over Larry Pratt, and resorted to calling Larry Pratt a "Stupid Man". Basically, everything Alex Jones did. Alex Jones actually made Piers Morgan look reasonable.

Again, I'm not complaining about Alex's information; it's his tactics. I guess he's so used to operating in an echo chamber where everybody mostly agrees with him or he can hang up on them that it translates to his interactions in real life. Mark Dice thinks he has "mean world syndrome". He's been covering this stuff for so long it has wrecked his view of the world.

It's Because of Stuff Like This People Won't Take Serious "conspiracy" Research Seriously

I came across Scifake during my paranormal phase a couple years ago. It was designed mostly to make fun of Ghost Hunters. Now it has other authors and has branched out into all kinds of territories, few of which it belongs in.

Sandy Hook Was Faked By Gun Control Advocates. Right.

Come on, Scifake, unless you're trying to be "The Onion" of paranormal and conspiracy sites, you have to do a little more research than watching a YouTube video and judging the behavior of one person from your position of total dis-involvement in the situation.

I know people who know people who were affected by this. It's not entirely conclusive, but it's more verification of events than Scifake's writer did.

If you're going to go with "it was staged", at tie it into MKULTRA. 

The Joys of Depleted Uranium

I've been listening to "conspiracy" stuff for a long time; well over a decade. I'm familiar with a lot of the big named conspiracies, theories, facts, and strange stuff.

One subject that keeps coming in on conspiracy circles is the subject of Depleted Uranium (DU).

I was a MK 15 Phalanx CIWS (Close In Weapon System) technician in the United States Navy from 1992 to 1998.

We used 20mm DU rounds in the CIWS. Before I left the U.S.S. Oldendorf (DD-972) in 1998, we had tungsten rounds aboard, but needed to discharge the DU before we could use them.

DU is used because it is very dense and hard. CIWS was designed to shoot down inbound anti-ship missiles. Obviously, a missile has no passenger. You want to take it out before it hits the ship. I cannot comment on the use of DU in applications involving live soldiers, sailors, Marines, or civilians because I dealt only with DU in the context of an anti-ship missile system.

Videos like this one mention DU applied in environments where people can be casualties:



I'm not entirely sure what to say to that.

I've heard "conspiracy" people talk about troops who have to handle DU. I did, for about 4 years. I typically used the appropriate safety precautions (gloves, eye protection, flak jacket, helmet, etc). I appear to have no adverse effects of handling DU ammunition. And tens of thousands of 20mm DU rounds have gone through my hands.

I will admit to having lived through some youth poor judgment in relation to DU. When I first reported onboard the U.S.S. White Plains (AFS-4) in 1994 as a 20 year old FC3, the other guys in the shop had a keychain for the firing key made out of a DU round. They'd gotten a machinist to drill a hole in the end of a DU round (don't ask me how they got the round out). It was hanging up in the shop. We all touched it. Apparently, DU is such a hard metal, the ship's machinist went through several drill bits drilling the hole.

So Come On...

Muse's song, Uprising, is incredibly motivational.

"They will not force us,
they will stop degrading us,
they will not control us,
we will be victorious!

So come on!"

So "Eyes Wide Shut" Was Real?

The question is mostly rhetorical. My own research into the occult indicates that yes, the kind of orgy depicted in Stanley Kubrick's final film "Eyes Wide Shut" does occur.

And here is a mainstream news source indicating that exact same thing. That's right; The Guardian. It sources an article from the New York Times.

It doesn't mention masks and weird rituals.

Kubrick was certainly an interesting man. Especially considering allegations that he faked the moon landing.

War Is A Racket- Maj Gen Smedley Butler

I came across an interesting link this morning. Major General Smedley Buttler wrote a booklet in the 1930's called "War Is A Racket". It's very short (the pdf is 13 pages). It speaks of the obscene profits made by manufacturers and bankers in times of war. He also gives recomendations in how to reduce wars (no, they won't go away, but taking the profits out and limiting voting to those who have to suffer through war can cut out things like the Spanish-American War being fought to increase newspaper subscriptions- look it up).

General Butler was a highly decorated Marine. He served in the Philippines, China, several "Banana Republics", and in World War I.

War Is A Racket.

Stanley Kubrick and the Moon Landing

This is an interesting topic. There is quite a bit of speculation that not only were the moon landings faked, but Stanley Kubrick was hired to do the faking. The Shining was supposedly embedded with all kinds of details explaining his time faking the moon landings for those discerning enough to understand.

James Corbett recently produced an excellent version of his podcast, The Corbett Report, dealing with this issue.

Please note that I don't entirely believe this. I doubt James Corbett does either. I just find it interesting. I don't believe everything I find interesting. There's often at least a grain of truth in falsehood though, and looking for it is always fun.

Check out James Corbett's episode linked above and let me know what you think in the comments. I've been coming across this topic a lot lately, and James linked pretty much all the sources I was aware of, and some others I wasn't. All are on his podcast page.

When it comes to the moon landings, my mind always throws back Apollo 13. IF the moon landings were indeed faked, where would Apollo 13 fit in? Why fake that? How would that be faked? I haven't found any attempts to answer that. Not that I've looked very hard.

Kissinger, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Neutered the Professoriate

I was going through some old posts I'd starred in Google Reader, and came across this from four years ago. I vaguely remember reading it. Which is good, because I don't remember having subscribed to that blog.

As the story goes, the author, R.R. Reno, has a friend who must remain unnamed who knows some "conservative power brokers" in D.C. This friend related a story to the author about how some Nixon era "conservative" leaders managed to neutralize the "liberal" educational establishment.

As interesting as I find the concept (I love conspiracy accounts), in order to accept it on anything more than apparent circumstantial anecdotes, I need more than an author relaying a third party account from an unnamed source who in turn is relaying a third party account from another group of unnamed sources.

I placed the binary political labels in quotes because I find them meaningless.

Controlled Opposition

One of the esoteric podcasts I enjoy listening to is Red Ice Radio. I recently listened to an interview with Josh Reeves, a Texas filmmaker and radio host. He makes the claim that the opposition is all coordinated. The Tea Party, the John Birch Society and others are all run from the top. Josh Reeves claims John McManus, current President of the JBS, is Jesuit trained.

Even if this is true, it doesn't surprise me. I've wondered several times if opposition is controlled. Normally, movement on the left side of the bi-factional system is sponsored and financed by George Soros and the Rockerfeller, Ford, and Carnegie foundations (Occupy, La Raza, etc). Why wouldn't the supposed right wing of the bi-factional system be controlled as well?