It’s amazing how much tin foil is worn in this country. But don’t retire your Reynold’s wrap hats just yet. Infowars recently put on a post about 33 conspiracy theories that turn out to be true. I prefer to call them hypotheses, actually, since most such conspiracy scenarios are just nutcasery that has no proof or evidence whatsoever. And of course theory is, in science, pretty much verified evidence for fact rather than just crazy hunches. But that’s just me.
Anyway, many of them are pretty fascinating on that list. Especially number 18, which spoke of Operation Ajax, and number 21 speaking about CIA assassinations, both of which confirm what I already knew, and what author John Perkins spoke about—the use of jackals and assassins to unseat inconvenient leaders of other countries. Perkins spoke about doing such things for the IMF and World Bank, who purposely put countries into debt and corrupt governments for their own profits.
But what really gets me is how one-sided this list really is without even trying to be. While it does mention some notion of “both sides” of conservative and liberal politics being involve, it never really shows liberals in the bad light. If anything, liberalism has been for the people, and constantly thwarted by the conservative pro-business, anti-people side. In fact, the very worst of things that the list admis are complete nuttery are concocted not by evil liberal conspiracy, but simple liberal plans that were spun into crazy conspiracy by conservatives. Such as the New World Order.
Which is amusing to me, since the NWO, while mentioned by Bush I in a speech, really would’ve been against it (and don’t forget, his father, Prescott, is mentioned in #16, to attempt a fascist coup against FDR). But he is in Ministry’s N.W.O. video. Well, someone dressed like him with a big Bush Sr. head on, grabbing his crotch hilariously:
Ministry ~ N.W.O. [WS] Official Music Video... by Scrubscribe
That’s just silliness though. Here’s what Infowars says:
The New World Order: This popular conspiracy theory claims that a small group of international elites controls and manipulates governments, industry and media organisations worldwide. The primary tool they use to dominate nations is the system of central banking. They are said to have funded and in some cases caused most of the major wars of the last 200 years, primarily through carrying out false flag attacks to manipulate populations into supporting them, and have a grip on the world economy, deliberately causing inflation and depressions at will. The people behind the New World Order are thought to be international bankers, in particular the owners of the private banks in the Federal Reserve System, Bank of England and other central banks, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group. Now, although this conspiracy theory was ridiculed for years, it turns out that the Bilderberg does meet and requests no media coverage. They receive no media coverage. The world’s elite meet every year and it goes largely unreported, for what?
So there were meetings. And?
Discussions at the meetings include the economy, world affairs, war and in general, world policy. After the financial collapse, the Bilderberg played a key role in proposing that the world prepare for a new world order and have a standard world currency.
Okay, now it’s sounding creepy. Right?
This was propsed [sic] shortly after by almost all attendees of the Bilderberg meeting. During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term “new world order” to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic or liberal proposals for global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve.
Well that doesn’t sound so bad. In fact, that sounds rather altruistic. And probably something a lot of countries suffering under tyrannical rule wouldn’t mind happening. Because as of now, the UN has been ineffective, essentially a bunch of people telling the world, “Ya’ll quit!” but doing nothing. Like a mother giving warnings that they never enforce, to children who know they can get away with everything.
These proposals led to the creation of international organizations, such as the United Nations
Oh wait, what? The UN came from this? So this giant evil thing ended up being just a bunch of people talking and wishing, but doing nothing? Sounds like it didn’t really do any actual evil in the world, did it?
….and N.A.T.O., and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a balance of power as well as regularize cooperation between nations, in order to achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism.
Capitalism. Hmmm. There’s your problem right there.
In the aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these new international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered from a democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only prevent another global war but also foster global justice. American banker David Rockefeller joined the Council on Foreign Relations as its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became chairman of the board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary chairman.
So basically they hoped to fix the world through capitalism. Okay, gotcha. And while I’m not saying super-rich capitalists can’t be altruistic, I’m saying they rarely can. Apparently this is one of those rare occasions:
In 2002, Rockefeller authored his autobiography Memoirs wherein, on page 405, he wrote:
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents … to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movement bent on creating a “real” new world order. A number of Fabian socialist intellectuals, such as British writer H. G. Wells in the 1940s, appropriated and redefined the term “new world order” as a synonym for the establishment of a full-fledged social democratic world government.
Okay, now we’re getting somewhere. Now we have leftists, and they’re eeeeevil attempts to take over the world. For… apparently… the greater good.
In the 1960s, a great deal of right-wing conspiracist attention, by groups like the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby, focused on the United Nations as the vehicle for creating the “One World Government”, and contributed to a conservative movement for United States withdrawal from the U.N..
Okay, now we’re talking. Enter in the rightwingers, and the cray cray begins. As is their usual method, they create a paranoid delusion to scare the shit out of people so that they’ll rally in fear towards the Right’s political views. That’s the entire way McCarthyism worked. Or, still does. But just how far did this craziness go into paranoia land? Well, you’ll see by the end of this paragraph:
American writer Mary M. Davison, in her 1966 booklet The Profound Revolution, traced the alleged New World Order conspiracy to the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 by international bankers, who she claimed later formed the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 as the shadow government. At the time the booklet was published, “international bankers” would have been interpreted by many readers as a reference to a postulated “international Jewish banking conspiracy” masterminded by the Rothschilds and Rockefellers. American televangelist Pat Robertson with his 1991 best-selling book The New World Order became the most prominent Christian popularizer of conspiracy theories about recent American history as a theater in which Wall Street, the Federal Reserve System, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, and Trilateral Commission control the flow of events from behind the scenes, nudging us constantly and covertly in the direction of world government for the Antichrist.
And with that, we just entered superbatshitcrazyville. You knew that was going to happen the second it came down to Pat Robertson, obviously. And you also know that it would become tied to every other nutty thing ever hatched, even if some of those were rather true. But okay, so there’s truth to this New World Order thing. Just not in all the insanity that has been attached to it by over-imaginative crazies. What it all leads to is an explanation for the talking point I’ve had several rightwingers throw my way:
After the turn of the century, specifically during the financial crisis of 2007–2009, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown, Henry Kissinger, and Barack Obama, used the term “new world order” in their advocacy for a Keynesian reform of the global financial system and their calls for a “New Bretton Woods”, which takes into account emerging markets such as China and India. These declarations had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World Order conspiracism, and culminated in former Clinton administration adviser Dick Morris and conservative talk show host Sean Hannity arguing on one of his Fox News Channel programs that “conspiracy theorists were right”.
Yes, the talking point I’ve heard has been this: “McCarthy was right.” Yes, they think that it’s true. Forget that he operated entirely on lies and hysteria, fear mongering and politically influencing the very worst of humanity. What matters is that he did it for something about which he was right. And what was he right about? That Communists exist. Forget whether or not any of the people he accused of being Communists actually were, or whether he or any of the accusers even understand what that meant. Communism suddenly became written by Marx (not true) and Marx is the Antichrist, or is ushering him in, or something. And it all comes from Satan. Don’t even think about anything Marx ever wrote, no matter how true and brilliant a lot of it was. The mere fact I said that makes me Communist and evil and you should ignore everything I ever said because I apparently bow down to the altar of Marxism. Seriously. That’s how insane this becomes.
And of course, it also now is attached to Keynesian anything. Which of course simply is the completely proven fact that the economy is driven, at its heart, by the people rather than by the rich. Demand comes from us, not from them. If Reagan gave us Supply-Side economics, from which we’re still waiting for any of that shit to trickle down, then John Maynard Keynes gave us Demand-Side economics. In other words, power to the people.
Proven every single time it’s been practices. Even rightwing source Forbes says so. We are, however, still waiting for Reagan’s shit to stop draining the world into an impoverish oblivion. Much less, waiting for it to work. So, if Satan is Socialist (which Keynesian economics supposedly is, if you listen to them), then apparently Satan is better at economics than Jesus, the founder of Capitalism. Oh no, wait. That would be this guy, who said this thing:
So wait, Jesus is capitalism and Satan is socialism. Even though Jesus said to do for the poor. But capitalism… wait… said to do it too? Meaning absolutely no excuse remains for these people! In the end, there’s nothing left than the simple fact that rightwing politics is what it’s always been, and that’s a bunch of people trying desperately to thwart progress and make greed and hate completely acceptable.
No. McCarthy was wrong, and so are you. And that’s the very thing Christianity was supposed to make you stop doing. But of course you aren’t. And that’s why I declare Christianity a complete and utter failure.
Rightwing, you simply are, and have always been: Wrong. About. Everything.
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