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!"

Cracked: Why "Gangnam Style" Is Actually An Exercise in Mind Control

This is comedy, but falls under weird stuff, which this blog is dedicated to. It's hard writing about weird stuff when I also have criteria that something should be objectively measured or demonstrated. Cracked writer Chris Buckholz explores this topic.

There is apparently a new meme going around about a mindless song accompanied by a music video of people riding imaginary horses. Apparently, when pop culture devotes hear the song, they spontaneously break out into imaginary horse riding-dancing.

Buckholz explores a novel called Snow Crash that also gets into ancient Sumerian culture. This is where I start to lose my area of expertise, so I'll summarize. Apparently, according to Buckholz's summation, ancient Sumerian language consisted of short syllables. It allowed people to be commanded.by the priests.

Buckholz explores (through comedy) the use of technology to command people to do things. He brings up police vehicles with huge "F**k off roof mounted sound systems", which are often used to disperse protesters. Imagine if the police at a G-20 or Bilderberg protest could cause the entire crowd to crap their pants and start imaginary horse dancing.

Somebody should send this to Alex Jones.

I've never heard the song, seen the dance, or seen anybody doing the dance. I'm still trying to heal from "Macerana" and "Achy Breaky Heart" in the 90's.I have an abnormally low tolerance to simple sound catchy pop culture tunes and memes. If enjoying the crap forces me to shut my brain off and repeat the same 2-4 words over and over and over again, forget it.

Ancient Aliens Debunked?

I came across an interesting interview on the Corbett Report the other day. Chris White has produced a documentary debunking the whole ancient aliens thing. I've seen a few of those shows, and while they're interesting, I think they're full of crap.

If you think about it, this is kind of racist. It's saying "Oh, look, those non-white ancient cultures with all these fancy pyramids and stuff. They didn't build that. Aliens did." It's like the President Obama "You didn't build that" speech of history.

^{Image obtained from http://didntbuildthat.com/post/30452962038/obama-let-my-people-go}

The documentary is over 3 hours long. I'll probably watch it over the weekend. It's available here, and on YouTube.

An interesting comment I heard is that Michael Shermer, skeptic, invited Chris White, a Christian, to write an article. It made me wonder if the world was coming to an end.

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.

Mark Dice- The Illuminati, Facts and Fiction

Mark Dice is a researcher and media analyst. He's written several books, two of which are on my shelf. I enjoy watching his videos.

I started this blog to write about issues like this. I love this stuff. The thing is, I like information that is objectively verifiable. I enjoy some of the weird esoteric stuff, but I have a hard time writing about it.

If you're interested in the Illuminati (I know, that word has you conditioned to close the browser tab and walk away), check out Mark Dice's book. He looked into all the claims about this subject, read all the source material, and verified what he could and debunked the BS.

Check out today's video from Mark, and if you're interested in the book, please consider buying it from my affiliate link. You'll help me buy more cool books to write about, and maybe help me close the gap with working 200 miles away from my wife and children.

Man, Blogger's YouTube search function absolutely sucks. I can put the exact link I'm looking for into it, and come up with videos that aren't even by the person I'm searching for. I'll have to stop using Blogger's editor when I embed videos.


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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.