The Remarkable Efficiency of War Spending

According to a report from the BBC the War on Terror has operated with a remarkably low level of loss to theft, accounting errors and waste of less than .95% since the start of conflict in Afghanistan, a level of spending efficiency which any successful business would be proud of. Out of a total expenditure estimated at $2.4 trillion, only a remarkably tiny $23 billion has gone missing, mostly in the hands of inefficient or corrupt local and international contractors.

Within the United States the average level of corporate loss to retail businesses from theft, wastage and other causes is 1.7%, almost double the level of loss reported for governmental efforts in the War on Terror. This totals up to $46 billion annually, which adds up to more than 15 times the annual cost of loss and waste in the War on Terror. For another comparison, Medicaid has a budget of $2.2 trillion per year and runs at a fraud and theft loss rate as high as 10% per year, for a total of $220 billion lost. That’s almost 10 times more fraud and theft of taxpayer funds every year than we’ve seen in the entire War on Terror.

Since the summer of 2007, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been trying to draw attention to this situation and hold hearings on some of the ways in which money has been spent in Iraq and look into issues of theft and waste, presumably in an effort to bring other government programs up to the same extraordinarily high standard of efficiency and perhaps provide some government contractors like Halliburton with medals or other certificates of recognition in a nice public ceremony.

Fun with numbers.

Factcheck: Alaskan Energy Production

On the campaign trail this week Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin claimed that she was well qualified to advise John McCain in the role of ‘Energy Czar,’ because as Governor of Alaska, she oversaw “nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas.”

On MSNBC on Thursday, while interviewing McCain ally Senator Sam Brownback, Norah O’Donnell challenged Palin’s claims and said that “In fact Alaska does not supply 20% of the US domestic supply of oil and gas. It’s just 7.5%. If she doesn’t know the facts, then why do we want her to be the Energy Czar for the entire United States?”

Senator Brownback wasn’t expecting the question and wasn’t prepared with a ready comeback for the hard numbers O’Donnell put forward, but as always the facts speak for themselves.

According to the Resource Development Council for Alaska, “Alaska’s oil and gas industry has produced more than 16 billion barrels of oil and 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas, accounting for an average of 20 percent of the entire nation’s domestic production (1980 - 2000).”

More recent figures from the Department of Energy show that Alaska is responsible for 18.1% of United States domestic oil production and 13.1% of domestic natural gas production.

So Palin’s claim is dead on, based on statements from Alaska’s main energy industry organization, though their figures are slightly out of date. Even based on the most up-to-date data, her statement on natural gas production may be slightly overstated, but she’s pretty close on oil production, as 18.1% can reasonably be described as “nearly 20%.” And the combined production percentage of 15.6% is double O’Donnell’s  figure of 7.5% and much closer to 20% than it is to 7.5%.

O’Donnell’s comment relies on the same figures used by other NBC reporters this week, including Savannah Guthrie on the NBC Nightly News on Wednesday night, and seems to be that news outlet’s ‘party line’ on this topic.  The source of this error appears to be the erroneous conclusion that Palin was referring to domestic energy production, which would include coal, nuclear, hydroelectric and other sources, rather than specifically oil and gas which is what she said in the statement O’Donnell quoted.   Palin has mistakenly referred to domestic energy production once, in her September 11th interview.

Whether this is just an example of bad research or media bias, it does raise the question of why, if accurate facts are important, anyone would want to watch Norah O’Donnell get them wrong on MSNBC or Savannah Guthrie misstate them on the NBC Nightly News.

How long will NBC continue to spread this misinformation? What are the chances that they will issue a correction or apology?

Alex Jones: Putin’s Meat Puppet

Alex Jones has certainly engaged in plenty of bizarre behavior in his constant narcissistic quest for attention for his crackpot ideas and paranoia merchandising. Yet his recent activities have dwarfed past outrages with an air of desperation which suggests that he realizes that fewer and fewer people are taking him seriously. Of course, if that’s a real concern, he has hit on the wrong solution, because getting weirder and more obnoxious is just going to alienate more people.

His latest escapade is to volunteer to become a wide-eyed apologist for Russian imperialism. His ingrained hatred of the Bush administration has led him to take the maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to a dangerous extreme. Instead of applying the same suspicion to others which he applies to Bush and the Neocons, he naively assumes that anyone who is out to get Bush and his cronies must be a good guy. The problem is that your enemy’s enemy can still be an evil bastard, and that’s the truth he’s failed to recognize about Vladimir Putin and his expansionist Russian administration. He has apparently missed one of the big lessons which came out of World War II, that being opposed to the Nazis did not make Stalinist Russia any less evil.

It’s truly bizarre that Jones questions everything to come out of Washington or the Bush administration, but is willing to swallow every bit of Russian disinformation whole and basically let himself be hollowed out and welcome Putin’s controlling hand up his backside and let Putin’s lies spew from his mouth. The height of his irresponsibility came when he decided it was a great idea to appear on Russian propaganda TV to praise Putin and denigrate the United States, reinforcing and lending legitimacy to the Russian administration’s blatant lies about the Georgian conflict.
In the broadcast on Russia Today, Jones compliantly mimics the talking points of the Russian Prime Minister, repeating the lie that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are traditionally Russian possessions. They actually have small Russian minority populations and were made part of Georgia by treaty in 1992. He even repeats Putin’s absurd claim that the Bush administration is heightening tensions with Russia to help McCain’s election bid, a clever twisting of the reality that the Russians are heightening tension to lend credibility to Obama’s anti-war campaign. The line of bull which Russia is slinging to excuse their imperialism happens to fit really well with Jones’ paranoid beliefs about the fictional New World Order, so he has let himself get sucked into helping to promote their grand deception.

Jones makes himself the very portrait of a person driven so hard by irrational hatred and paranoid fantasies that he’s willing to let himself be used by people as evil as any group he opposes without even considering the consequences. It’s troublingly reminiscent of the less well-publicized early career of Lee Harvey Oswald whose resentment of the US government led him to become a willing pawn of the Soviets. Apparently Jones thinks that using his voice to legitimize Russian disinformation so he can get airtime on their propaganda network somehow gives him added prominence and legitimacy, except that anyone but a child can see how he is being used and made a dupe by Putin. Jones complains about people being pawns of the ridiculous New World Order, yet willingly makes himself a pawn of hostile imperialists whose threat is very real. He may fancy himself a master of propaganda and deception, but when playing with the Russians he’s just out of his depth.

Jones’ behavior can be explained away by the fact that he’s a community college dropout with zero experience in foreign affairs who makes his living by spreading misinformation and promoting irrational fear and hatred through his books, movies and radio show, but ignorance and opportunism are really not an acceptable excuse. For Jones it pays to be outrageous and it pays to pander to the fears of the delusional and uneducated. They’re his audience and the sheep he fleeces for a iiving. Yet there has to be some point at which even they draw the line. Becoming an active agent for a hostile foreign power really goes beyond the scope of Jones’ usual self-promotion and destructive behavior. You have to ask if this is the last straw which will finally make his followers see his foolishness and start to wake up.

Alex Jones Goes Berserk in Denver

If you ever had any doubt that Alex Jones was a thug, a bully and a jackass, events this week in Denver ought to lay those doubts to rest.

It all started with a protest put together by the anarcho-hippies of Recreate68 and some of their allies. They planned to go to the Denver mint to hold a nonviolent protest in which they were apparently planning to use their positive psychic energy to levitate and ultimately destroy the mint in a protest against global capitalism. As they had hoped, this protest attracted some attention. A number of right-wing bloggers were there to film and scoff at the hippies, including prominent editorialist and blogger Michelle Malkin and Steve Green AKA Vodka Pundit who was acting as a reporter for Pajamas Media and who we have to thank for the best of the various videos to come out of this fracas.

Of course, since the protest was at the Denver mint, it was almost inevitable that Alex Jones would be there with some of his supporters, what with the mint being part of the power structure of the diabolical New World Order and the Zionist bankers who control it, or something silly like that. As quickly became clear, there's not much love lost between Alex Jones and Michelle Malkin.  He's convinced that she's going to round up every conspiracy nut and Pakistani convenience store clerk in the country and put them in (nonexistent) FEMA death camps while torturing Iraqi babies and whoring herself to the Gnomes of Zurich at the same time - she can multitask. She seems equally convinced that he's an irritating blowhard who she's too short to shoot pictures over. Well, a picture speaks a thousand words and a video speaks about a million - or in this case shouts them - so see the accompanying clip for what I'm talking about.

What quickly became clear as all these politically volatile elements gathered at the mint, was that Alex Jones can't resist the powerful combination of lots of video cameras and a diminutive Filipino-American to harangue. Calling her a "prostitute" and "disgusting new world order trash" and a variety of other epithets and shouting out her supposed crimes, Jones followed Malkin around, tried to thrust his pudgy form in her path and had his followers chase her down when she tried to get away, yelling "Get Michelle Malkin! Don't let her leave! …Get on her!" Malkin took it all pretty calmly and did her best to just ignore Jones, setting an example for the world to follow. She did have some help. She seemed to have a large and bearded bodyguard type at her elbow, and some of the peaceniks took offense at Jones' behavior and attempted to come to her defense as well.

Contrary to what some have reported, Jones did not start chanting "kill Michelle Malkin", though it wouldn't have been a surprise, given his behavior. The chant was started by a guy in a funny hat who looked like he was with Jones, but who may just have been a prankster. In the video Jones does appear to give a good hard shove to one of the protesters who was attempting to defend Malkin, which likely meets the legal definition of assault. Jones was out of control and clearly desperate for attention, and when the cameras moved away from him he was quick to chase them down and try to make himself the center of attention again by being as verbally abusive as possible to Malkin.

I've got no particularly warm feelings for Malkin. While most of Jones' claims about her are as ridiculous and delusional as the rest of what he spews, she has said some genuinely troubling things and is needlessly sensationalistic, though she is occasionally fairly humorous. I'm no more a fan of her moralistic, fearmongering, hardline conservatism than I am of Alex Jones bombastic lunatic fringe ranting. Nonetheless, she does have a right to free speech and free assembly and not to be harassed by a mob stirred up by a ranting lunatic. Jones has a right to free speech too, but he doesn't have a right to create a situation which is volatile and potentially dangerous in the middle of what could easily become a dangerous mob.

Jones is just about out of control. It's only a matter of time before an incident like this turns violent. He also seems to have no idea how self-defeating his behavior is. He may think these antics are a great way to get his message out, but what they actually do is let people like me point out to other reasonable people that his behavior is not that of someone who ought to be taken seriously. He may think he's some sort of crusading force of righteousness, but most of those who watch the video are going to join me in concluding that he's a hate-filled buffoon. The contrast between his raging and ranting and Malkin's calm response gives her legitimacy and takes away what little he has left.

Watch the video. Draw your own conclusions.

WTC7 - A Conspiracy of Failed Sprinklers

This week the National Institute of Standards and Technology released its long awaited report on the collapse of WTC7, the smaller third building destroyed as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11. The examination of the evidence is exhaustive and disproves every one of the bizarre conspiracy theories which have been circulated about the collapse of this building which was not actually hit by the two jetliners used in the attack. At the heart of the report is the conclusion that after debris from the two larger buildings started fires on multiple floors of the WTC7, it was the failure of the building’s sprinkler systems which allowed fires to run unchecked and led to the collapse.

The collapse of the two main WTC towers played two roles in the destruction of WTC7. First, flaming debris started fires on floors 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 which spread rapidly, feeding on office furniture, rugs and paneling. Second, the collapse of the main towers damaged both the primary and secondary connections to the city water supply so that the sprinkler system which should have suppressed the fires was no use at all. The fires then burned out of control for 7 hours, ultimately resulting in enough structural damage for the floors to start a pancake-style collapse beginning with the 13th floor (there’s some fuel for triskadecaphobes).

The report is based on an exhaustive three year study which includes debris analysis, experiments with materials, actual fire testing and computer modeling. It goes over evidence which disproves all of the major alternative theories favored by conspiracy theorists, finding no support for claims that there was any kind of explosion or controlled demolition, and ultimately concluding that although collapses of buildings of this size have not happened before, what happened with WTC7 suggests that fire should be taken more seriously as a structural threat to larger buildings in the future and includes recommendations for changes in building codes to prevent similar fires. Of course, very few fires combine multiple points of origin with massive damage to the infrastructure supporting the fire control sprinklers, a situation unique to the World Trade Center attack. Had the sprinklers operated properly the fire would have done no more damage than is typical in other large building fires and the building would not have collapsed.

Not surprisingly, no amount of evidence will sway the psychotically obsessed truthers from their delusions. They are already describing the report as a “Cover Up” and the “Crime of the Century” — apparently an even greater crime than the attack on the World Trade Center iteself. They are also making attempts to debunk the evidence, generally by aggressive repetition of arguments which are specifically addressed and disproven in the report, on the theory that if they shout more loudly they will win the argument by drowning out the evidence.

While the report provides exhaustive scientific and technical evidence to counter the claims which truthers have held dear for years, it is only part of the story. The theory that the collapse of WTC7 was a controlled demolition also fails to hold up on the basis of simple logic. There are basic questions which the truthers have never been able to answer adequately. For example, what was the motive for destroying WTC7 when the collapse of the two main towers was far more dramatic and the destruction of WTC7 involved no loss of life or destruction of critical data or materials? Or how was it possible to plant demolition charges in the building in a period of only 7 hours while hundreds of firefighters were working there without one eyewitness seeing the charges or the people planting the or the substantial removal of structural material necessary to place to charges on supporting columns?

Conspiracy claims about WTC7 have never made any sense, and the new NIST report ought to lay them to rest once and for all. Yet I’m sure it will take more than overwhelming evidence to calm the tide of pure delusion which drives the truthers.

Popular Mechanics offers a good summary of the report, and also an itemization of the six major conspiracy theories conclusively debunked by the report.

The Government is Not Poisoning You With ‘Chemtrails’

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time on planes flying from country to country and a fair amount of time looking at the sky from the ground, fascinated with the space program which was taking us to the moon and beyond. I never looked to the skies with fear or terror, but only saw it as a blank canvas for amazing possibilities.

One of the things I saw in those skies were lots of straight white lines, sometimes in pairs, usually very high up, which my father identified as contrails. He had been a navy flyer in World War II and had seen plenty of them up close and personal He explained that they are lines of frozen water vapor formed when the hot and humid exhaust from a plane’s engines encounters colder air high in the atmosphere and turns to ice crystals, essentially producing artificial clouds behind the plane.

That seemed like a pretty reasonable explanation for many years, but imagine my surprise to be informed that these trails of cloud were not, in fact, mere frozen water vapor, but were actually ‘chemtrails‘; not trails of condensation, but trails of chemicals nefariously released into our atmosphere by the government or by evil corporations or even by aliens for all sorts of arcane purposes, from testing biological weapons on the civilian population to reprogramming our perceptions with psychoactive chemicals to causing mass sterilization as part of a UN depopulation program.

The basic origin of the chemtrails conspiracy theory seems to be nothing more than people looking up in the sky and seeing contrails and speculating insanely with no actual basis in fact. It’s a particularly bewildering theory because we’ve had a factual, scientific and verifiable explanation for contrails for generations. To look beyond that explanation requires the kind of paranoid mindset that looks at commonplace things and manufactures nightmares out of nothing. It’s Agent Mulder announcing “I want to believe” and then finding what he wants to believe in whether it exists or not. The classic self-fulfilling prophecy with nothing real behind it.

The idea that contrails were actually something more nefarious is based on several bits of mistaken evidence. First, that contrails seem to last far longer than anyone would expect and that they are increasing in number. Second, that they sometimes form seemingly complex or regular patterns or display strange colors. Third, that some airplanes have mysterious tanks and apparatus in their wings. Couple these observations with a belief that the government is generally up to no good and you get such popular explanations for ‘chemtrails’ as that they are methods of dispersing chemicals over the entire surface of the country to drug the population for any purpose from mass inoculation to mind control, that they are some sort of weather modification program to either cause or prevent global warming, and that they are some method of communicating with aliens or terraforming the earth to be more compatible with alien lifeforms.

The behavior of contrails has been pretty thoroughly researched. They are generally found very high in the atmosphere where conditions can be extremely stable and where very low temperatures make it unlikely for ice crystals to melt quickly. Because they are ice crystals at high altitude they can produce a rainbow-like effect which would cause them to change color or appear sparkly when caught by the sun at the right angle. The increasing number of contrails is solely the result of increases in air traffic at higher altitudes in recent years, and there is a direct correlation. Even today you rarely see as many contrails as covered the sky during World War II, as demonstrated by the photo accompanying this article. Regular patterns are easily accounted for by the standardization of flight routes to and from airports which are used over and over again. As for spraying apparatus and tanks found on commercial airliners, these do exist. They are part of the de-icing system on these planes and their function and purpose are easily accounted for.

The idea that these planes are spraying chemicals is probably an extrapolation based on several real activities, including crop dusting experiments with anti-missile chaff and the occasional experimental seeding of clouds to create rain. A crop-dusting style distribution of chemicals would make no sense from an altitude of 20,000 to 30,000 feet because at that altitude any but the most dangerous biotoxins would be dispersed to the point where they would have virtually no effect, plus from that altitude variations in winds as the particles descend would make it impossible to predict or control where any particles would land. What’s more, carrying out a widespread program like this to disperse dangerous chemicals through hundreds of commercial airliners would involve so many people and so much suspicious activity that it would be almost impossible to keep it secret. Finally, if the purpose was to drug the general population, then the people behind the program would also be drugging themselves and their families either directly or through food sources which would be contaminated with any widely distributed substance pervasive enough to survive high-atmospheric dispersal. As for the claims of effects from chemtrails, there is no statistical evidence of higher rates of sterility or illness of any kind associated with areas of high activity. So this theory fails the test of logic on almost every count.

Other claims are equally easy to disprove. Claims of jets releasing heavier materials are easily accounted for by releases of ‘blue ice’ waste material or fuel dumping, and can usually be specifically identified from airline records. Claims of dreaded criss-coss or other heavy patterns or trails which appear only on certain days are generally directly connected to the activities of flights from aiforce bases, which do fly in patterns on specific days and cross over their own trails. Every paranoid claim about these trails can easily be addressed by a simpler and more logical explanation than some sort of government conspiracy or arcane experiment. In this case the believers are violating the principle of Occam’s Razor, the basic fallacy of looking for more complex and unlikely explanations when a simple and logical explanation is already available.

The government has repeatedly denied the existence of any special chemical component in contrails or any program to disperse chemicals in the atmosphere and the Air Force even released a full explanation of the phenomenon. Of course, those who really want to believe in conspiracies don’t want to believe any claims from the government, so to satisfy them there are a number of scientific studies of contrails, mostly focusing on their potential impact on the environment and aerial navigation. The Discovery Channel even did a program on them in which they tested contrails for dangerous chemicals and found nothing significant. Chemtrail debunking websites are widespread, collecting large amounts of data and linking to all the scientific sources. One compiled by a Danish astronomer at the University of Copenhagen is particularly comprehensive.

Of course, the classic scenario with this particular conspiracy is that someone sees a contrail in the sky, gets sick and concludes that the contrail contained pathogens which brought on the illness. After all, common viruses and bacteria aren’t a good enough explanation for the creeping nasties. A secret government plot makes so much more sense. This is a classic example of the logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc or the failure to prove causation. In this fallacy the subject observes A and experiences B and assumes that A caused B even though there is no provable connection between the two which are really only related by coincidental timing or proximity. Unless he can test the chemicals in the contrail and test his own body and find them and prove that they can cause his malady there is no proof of a connection. The subject probably encountered scores of things that same day which didn’t catch his attention like the contrail which were far more dangerous and more likely to cause his illness. In this case it is particularly illogical, because if he can see the contrail in the sky, then how can it also be at ground level making him ill? That fails the most basic test of common sense. How can the same substance be observed in one place and have an effect on someone more than 5 miles away at the same time?

Contrails are fascinating, but they are not a mystery. They’re a beautiful but harmless byproduct of human technology. They are a well known and understood phenomenon which has been with us since man first took to the skies. We know exactly what they are and how they are created and how they behave. To try to replace that commonplace reality with extravagant and paranoid fantasy just makes no sense at all.

“Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies.” — The Thing

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Featured Idiot: Jeff Rense

Jeff Rense is to the left wing what Alex Jones is to the far right. He shares many of the same conspiracy beliefs, but he’s also a crypto-marxist who believes in UFOs and has an extra strong hate on for Republicans and Jews. He also has an obscure radio show and makes bogus claims about his background and past experience. But unlike Jones he does have really cool hair - possibly created by alien technology and a magical, credibility-creating Geraldo mustache.

How to Make Your Tinfoil Hat

If you’ve been reading infowars.com or 911truth.org, by now you realize that you’re in serious trouble if you don’t start taking essential steps to protect your brain. Not only do you have to worry about the Council on Foreign Relations’ orbital mind control satellites, but now Google Earth has microwave lasers to read your thoughts from windowless black vans that roam our neighborhoods. And if that wasn’t bad enough, airliners are dropping psychoactive chemtrails on your head and your own cell phone is beaming radiation into your gray matter to kill you with a brain tumor so that the Chinese can use your body to host a alien parasite they have genetically engineered to operate your body like a puppet.

There is only one time-tested defense from all of these threats, the tinfoil hat. Now I know you’ve heard a lot about the efficacy of these fabled protective devices, but there are some facts you may not know and details which the agents of the New World Order have purged from the public record to keep you defenseless and in ignorance. Here - at least until the Illuminati gets wise and deletes this article - are the secrets of designing and constructing the most effective possible tinfoil hat, so that the next time you go to a local Ron Paul meetup or out for a beer with your Truther friends you won’t unwittingly be turned into a remote operated spy for the Illuminati.

First there’s the issue of materials. Traditionally tinfoil hats have been made of tinfoil. Go look in your kitchen. You’ll notice that the stuff you call ‘tin’ foil is actually made of aluminum. In the 1970s the global corporatists of the metals industry replaced our actual tinfoil with aluminum foil in an effort to reduce our access to the protective properties of true tinfoil. It was a clever stratagem, because traditionally constructed hats made from aluminum foil have only a fraction of the radiation reflecting properties of a true tinfoil hat. Thankfully, this can be addressed by using an alternative design which has been suppressed by a conspiracy of Opus Dei librarians, but which I will reveal here. Of course, you can use tinfoil and in fact, some other foils are even more effective. Copper foil has double the value of tinfoil and gold foil is even better. In fact, more compact hat designs can be used with these metals, such as the gold-lined yarmulkes used by agents of the JDL and AIPAC. But gold foil is prohibitively expensive, tinfoil is hard to find and copper foil has become increasingly expensive because of the copper shortage caused by the consumption of copper to line the entirety of the interior of the government’s secret Yucca Mountain facility.

The answer is to use the aluminum foil which the elites allow us to have, but to use the right design to maximize its effectiveness. The traditional cockade-style hat design borrowed from paper hats just isn’t adequate when working with inferior materials. If you have aluminum foil or are lucky enough to find some actual tinfoil at a junk shop or antique store, you can double its effectiveness by using a miter-style design which resembles a Catholic bishop’s hat. Hardly a coincidence since those bishops line their hats with metal foil to protect them from attacks by witches and sorcerers.

You start out with a 12 inch square piece of foil. Fold it in half to make a triangle. Then take the points on the top and bottom folds opposite the long, folded edge and fold them back halfway to the main fold. Then take the other two corners and fold them opposite to each other to form two right angles at each end of the folded foil. Then fold the triangular ends over in opposite directions. You will then have a perfect square 6 inches on a side. On the side opposite the very first fold there will be an opening. Stick the fingers of each hand inside one of the sides and keep the thumbs holding the foil to the fingers from the outside and pull your hands apart. The hat will open up and naturally form two points like the traditional bishop’s miter. You may want to push the points closer together to form a better point.

The hat is worn square on the head, with the brim resting above the eyebrows. This should effectively shield your brain from any kind of radiation directed at it from above or from any side. While we have had good results with this hat design, even with aluminum foil, we make no guarantees of effectiveness. Scientists at the Carlyle Group and NASA are on the payroll of the Rothschild and Rockefeller families and are constantly at work on improving mind control and pacification laser, microwave and sub-sonic technology. We cannot guarantee effectiveness against chemtrail pathogens or psychotropics and recommend that the hat be worn in combination with a dust mask sprayed with Windex. Do not use Formula 409, GreenWorks or any other Clorox product as Clorox is owned by the Taft family who are notorious members of the CFR.

With your hat on and other appropriate preparations you ought to be able to attend your local Ron Paul meetup or 9/11 Truth meeting and be relatively confident that the black helicopters, stealth drones and satellite surveillance systems of the New World Order will be unable to read or control your thoughts.

Watch this space in the future for information on how to protect yourself from department store scanners, clothing with radioactive markers, video surveillance cameras and dentally implanted radio transcievers.

Where the Road of Unreason Leads

I’ve written before that I believe that Alex Jones, the John Birch Society, groups like 9/11 Truth and the more extreme elements of the Ron Paul movement are potential precursors to the kind of virulent, cult-like nationalism which launched the Fascists and the Nazis into power in the middle of the last century. Their creation of imaginary enemy groups and oppressive elites are part of a program to forge a shared identity for their followers and promote a mood of constant, irrational outrage. By divorcing their followers from reality and offering themselves up as the source of the only true answers, these demagogues lay the foundation for the kind of populist movement which starts out demanding freedom and ends up enslaving everyone.
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