Skeptic Project

Well the prediction of total economic collapse in August or September failed to happen - no real surprise there.

However! Webbot is predicting something happening between now and October 25th or afterwards, all the way until December 10th, which is fairly broad, but everyone's focusing on October 25th, so I mark that as a new prediction.

Will something happen? Probably not, but we'll see...

QOTD, Facebook:

I just received a rather hilariously screwed up message on Facebook that I thought needed to be shared.



At first I wasn't sure what to say, so I settled with this:



So far she hasn't responded yet, but I think my reply was fairly clear.

The idea it would even matter that I'm Jewish shows an underlying anti-Semitism, it'd be like claiming you're not racist but constantly pointing out black people.

I can only laugh with an underlying nauseated feeling about this kind of absolutely retarded bullshit.

I'm not Jewish and I don't have anyone in my family tree which stretches back to prior when the Winston name was adopted for family use. The idea that the word for "stone" appearing in my name means I have Jewish ancestry would mean that anyone with "berg", "stein", "baum", or "witz" at the end of their name must have Jewish ancestry and completely ignores the fact that Norman, English, and Germanic names in general predate Judaism in Europe.

What's say the first person, 350 years ago, to use Winston in my family was Jewish, that would mean 17 generations ago I had "Jewish ancestry", and even the Nazis themselves required a family tree going back to 1750 join the SS, and I would have easily qualified - not that I'd join.

I see people like this on the JREF Forums a lot, basically the kind who say they're skeptical about the holocaust, or skeptical about the "official 9/11 story", and in reality they're anti-Semitic and/or conspiracy theorists.

I decided to block this person on Facebook, I don't feel like exchanging messages with such a complete shit bag of a human being.

It's weird, it both makes me laugh and makes me sick.

I get asked the .gov and bible question a lot, it's in my FAQ, I guess this dipshit really didn't read anything on my site other than my About page where I mention I'm not Jewish.

Alex Jones has a lot of people getting on his ass for being married to a woman with Jewish ancestry, and I guess it goes to show that when you can't defend your conspiracy theories or theories in general, you can just break down and accuse those you don't like of being Jewish or bring up their family members. For the record, my wife isn't Jewish either, her ancestry is French.

There's a video going around the Internet of a supposèd arrest by military men of a G20 protester. On the one hand you have people like Alex Jones claiming this is evidence of the coming marshal law that they've been claiming is just around the corner for 20-25 years. On the other you have other people claiming it's a hoax - that is to say some kind of performance art piece.

Well, neither are true.

First, let's take a look at the video:
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Problems with the military theory:

• The uniforms are different - there are two types of uniforms used by the individuals in the video


• The boots aren't standard - while two are wearing military-style boots, the other is wearing brown work boots.


• The uniform styles are outdated and are no longer used.


• The car has a Pennsylvania license plate, not a US Government plate.


• According to one protester: The ID tags had Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety on them and a long ID number.


• Even on Infowars many of those guys point out things wrong with the video.

In this picture:



You can see the same three guys hanging around cops and the same car.

Misconceptions

Some people watching the videos think it's illegal for non-military to wear BDUs, but that's hardly the case - ever been to a military surplus store? It's actually illegal to wear any sort of rank, insignia, and so forth. US Code Title 10, Chapter 45 does seem to state that it's illegal - even wearing a military cap, but the purpose of the law is actually to keep individuals from impersonating military personnel. I guess I sort of contradict myself there, but have you ever heard of anyone being arrested for simply wearing BDUs?

There's a reason Tupac called cops "troops" anyway.

According to the G20 Folks

The G20 Joint Information Center:

The individuals involved in the 9/24/2009 arrest which has appeared online are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20.

It is not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflaged fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation. Prior to the arrest, the officers observed this subject vandalizing a local business. Due to the hostile nature of the crowd, officer safety and the safety of the person under arrest, the subject was immediately removed from the area.

In The End

Why does it matter if they're all lying and it was really super-unorganized, protocol breaking, badly uniformed military personnel? During the days of COINTELPRO, the police had no problem cooperating with the FBI to have people killed or to beat up people in the streets. Why is it different now if it's the same evil people in charge? Why do they need to use the military when they've shown they can brutally do whatever they want without it? Is it because the so-called "patriot movement" with people like Alex Jones seem to believe States can do no wrong and only the Federal government is evil?

When's marshal law coming? Still just around the corner. I have a feeling I'll be asking this question for the next several years, and even then, it'll be just around the corner. If they didn't do it after 9/11, why are they going to do it now?

See you Monday!

There are a lot of views on the future and the survival of the human race, they range from philosphies on free markets (such as anarcho-capitalism or minarchism), anarcho-socialism, communism, some kind of mixture, technocracy (where I rest in the debate), and then there's the ever popular anarcho-primitivism.

What's that you ask? Well it's the advocation that we more or less return to the hunter-gatherers we once where, or in some cases, basic agriculture. A web site pointed out to me on our Facebook group detailed how that was likely the only answer for humanity. Here's the discussion up to this point:

[FB]Ben:

Edward, I'd like to hear your opinion of the featured article of this site:

http://www.outlawjournalism.com/

... and this: http://www.outlawjournalism.com/?p=56

So I go and check it out and decide that I'm going to make my next blog post about it and don't say anything on the wall yet. In the mean time someone else beats me to it:

[FB] Terence
That last one (56) is a good article. It generally details most new-age and aliens claims as disinformation. Unfortunately, instead of crediting this to rebellious emotion, profiteering, trolling or general batshit insanity - they then credit THE ELITE with authorship. It's simply amazing, on the brink of dispensing an ounce of logic, it opts for a pound of more bullshit and, by its own article, can be referred to as "a disinformation conspiracy".

Its argument is its own undoing.

It's also quite interesting, many times the author is correct; we are ever in a struggle between the classes, a struggle that occurs on many levels, for very complicated reasons. The reasons used at any conflict are usually over-simplified, zeitgeist oversimplifies this, but so does this author, generally in the exact same way.

The author presents a good look at conspiracy rubbish, but from his own objective world view which is generally of the same flavour. Corporations and governments should never be trusted, but dispensing the majority of conspiracy claims well, but as a conspiracy in itself, just simply beggars belief.

The man is agonizingly one cent short of a dollar.

What more can I add? All I can point out is this gem:

[Article] "What I have determined is that civilization as a whole was a scam from the beginning, and the only logical path for humanity to take is to utterly abandon it and return to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Ultimately, this is going to happen whether you want it to or not, as there is no other way it can go, but if you understand that it will happen, and why it must happen, you are going to be psychologically, and perhaps even physically, prepared for the total collapse of the entirety of world civilization"

Look everybody, it's Tyler Durden!

It's important to note that prior to the agrarian revolution, when humans were hunter-gatherers, the infant mortality rate was absolutely tremendous, and life was insufferable hell. How do I know? Well, other than being an avid camper, it isn't hard to imagine that 15 being middle aged is pretty screwed up.

One thing I almost forgot, in order to be hunter-gatherers, the population of the Earth has to be much lower, and in fact at that point in human history it was about 1 million people, that's about 500 times smaller than the "ideal" the conspiracy theorists think the elite are striving for.

As for other articles on the site: Gaza genocide, Zionist conspiracies, the same stupid Henry Kissinger NWO bullshit, and so on.

Advocating hunter-gatherer as some how the best option we have is like saying vaccinations, pasteurization, and so forth were just useless and unneeded... oh wait, they are that stupid.

Prison Planet QOTD:

A Time article says it all.

Best selling author Douglas R. Casey says:

"We are facing the greatest depression in the history of the world."

This is exactly what the conspiracy theorists have been saying, and there have been depressions in the past, they could be correct on this one. I'm open to the idea that they might be.

Howard J. Ruff, in the same article says further:

"We will look back on 20% inflation with nostalgia."

This is another thing they've been saying. It's important to note that Casey and Ruff are not conspiracy theorists nor have they appeared on Alex Jones radio show (that I know of, but I doubt it).

Casey, 34, has advised audiences to leave their property in a basement safe in stead of a safe-deposit box or to speculate in the real estate of countries such as Chile and Colombia when, he says, political troubles have depressed land prices. "Buy when blood is running in the streets," he says.

That's exactly what's going on, so it's pretty convincing blood could be running in the streets.

Another Time article, published a year prior to the one above, has Casey telling us:

The message of Crisis Investing is simple. A depression of unprecedented magnitude will hit the world [...] because of excessive controls and distortions in the economy created by the U.S. Government. Says Casey: "This depression is going to make the 1930s look like a technical correction. This one is going to be a real doozy."

Now I'm getting nervous, this is what a lot of people have been talking about. And Neal Boortz has me on this one, considering Casey even says:

Gold will eventually hit at least $1,600 per oz.

So is it true?

In a couple of years could this all come to pass?

Apparently so, everyone's saying it, now Time is reporting it.

Oh wait, the articles are from 1980 and 1981? The predicted depression is set to begin in 1983?

Well I'll be dipped!

More proof that conspiracy theorists and some "economists" cycle the same garbage over and over again, and people at it up, over and over again. Casey was giving talks for $1,000 per person about the coming economic doom.

Thanks to an anonymous person who showed me these articles.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954583,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949094-1,00.html

Prison Planet QOTD:



All too fitting: